Celebration of Light by Leslie Gifford
- Friday, December 20, 202410:00AM 10:00 AM
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Artist's Bio
Leslie Gifford was a dancer/choreographer before she ever began to paint. She grew up studying and dancing with the foremost teachers and dancers from the Russian tradition, an incredible experience that continues to inform her life and work.
After graduating from Skidmore College, she moved to Paris, where she met and began creating with other multidisciplinary artists. During her time in Paris, she was part of a group awarded a Fringe First Award for innovative, creative work and she became Artist in Residence at the American Center for Students and Artists in Paris, receiving a Rockefeller Foundation Grant to create performance pieces synthesising art, dance and theatre, which toured throughout Europe.
After a year traveling throughout Southeast Asia, she returned to the United States, settling in New York City, and began working on the PBS documentary film series The American Experience. During that time, she traveled to the Amazon rainforest, a journey which culminated in an illustrated book, Earth Song.
Her art has been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and venues such as Oslo City Hall, home of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Colorado Springs Airport, and the Center for the Arts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Her work is in both private and corporate collections and published in International Women Artists, Vols. I & II.
She currently lives in Denver, Colorado where she divides her time between painting, teaching, doing intuitive readings, and traveling.