Leah Jackson is a rising Senior at Denison University, pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema and a double minor Visual Arts and Art History

With over ten years of experience painting and seven years as a working artist, Leah's passion for the visual arts inspires just about everything she does. She uses her art to express emotion and explore complex ideas about identity, gender, politics, self-image, mental health, and embodied experience. 

The majority of her painting portfolio is acrylic and mixed media, though she also works with oils, watercolor, and gouache. Although her background is in painting, in recent years, her studies have been in printmaking, including intaglio, relief, woodcut, linocut, screenprinting, monotype, drypoint, etching, and aquatint. Today, Leah works as a teacher's assistant for printmaking classes in Denison's Visual Arts Department and was previously assistant to the department's program coordinator. In addition to working for the Visual Arts department, Leah founded Denison's only student art collective. The collective funds, supplies, and organizes open studios, workshops, and art shows for Denison students. The Collective has been successful in fostering a community and increasing visibility for student artists over the last three years.