Leslee Nelson

Professor of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Department of Art and the Department of Liberal Studies and the Arts

Office: 723 Lowell Center
608/263-7814
610 Langdon Street
Madison, WI 53703-1195
E-mail: lnelson@dcs.wisc.edu
Fax: 608-262-1694

 

Professor Nelson coordinates non-credit art classes in the Madison area for adults, children and teens on weekends and evenings. She is the Director of the Wisconsin Regional Art Program which provides exhibits and workshop sites for nonprofessional artists throughout Wisconsin.

 

She teaches graduate seminars on women artists, assemblage and collage, art and spirit, content and meaning, and professional practices for the art department of the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Professor Nelson makes reconstructed quilts, art dolls, and large-scale installations.

EDUCATION The Banff Centre, School of Fine Arts, Alberta, Canada
MFA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Graphics
MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Textile Design
BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, Ceramics/Textile Arts

 

FELLOWSHIP/AWARD

1983 and 2000- Wisconsin Arts Board, Artist Fellowship, Visual Arts 1995 - "GERALD A. BARTELL AWARD IN THE ARTS," University of Wisconsin-Madison

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

Spain, Japan, China, Russia, Indonesia, Scotland, India, France, Canada, and Germany

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Texas, California, New York, Iowa, Michigan, Alaska, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Tennessee, Arizona, New Jersey, Missouri, Ohio and Virginia

COLLECTIONS

Panama, Italy, Spain, Indonesia, United States

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Social Transformation through the Arts

International Friends of Fiber

Wisconsin Regional Artists Association, Advisor to the Board of Director

 

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