Alexandra Leonard is an explorer and excavator of the ways creativity and connection manifests in the realms we live. With a meandering path to community engaged artmaking – from neighborhood organizing and student-community engaged projects at her alma mater, Kalamazoo College, and abroad in Nairobi, Kenya, to a career as a financial advisor, and creating a 200-section mobile ceramic sculpture at ArtPrize 2018, to pivoting to the trades and becoming a tile setting apprentice, while infusing creative approaches to food within the hospitality industry and her agricultural upbringing – her well-rounded, ever-curious approach is encompassed by how we can live more curious, connected and creative lives. Special thanks to the work of and with artist, Isaiah Zagar and his Philadelphia Magic Gardens for deep inspiration.
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