About
Leslie Renn (American b. Washington, D.C. 1982) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and life-long Virginian, having spent most of her life between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Tidewater area of southeast Virginia.
She received her BFA in fibers and printmaking from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia in 2013 and her MFA in Studio Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 2021.
She is a veteran of the Iraq War and an instructor with the veteran-artist led organization Frontline Paper (formerly Combat Paper NJ) where she helps other veterans and service members turn their military uniforms into paper.
She currently teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art and resides in Norfolk, Virginia with her husband and their two children.