{"id":3567,"date":"2023-04-10T17:20:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/?page_id=3567"},"modified":"2024-12-23T01:39:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T01:39:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/?page_id=3567","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-4ry9z3-ff580a1dc1aea24a5ebf71a5d0881fad\">\n.flex_column.av-4ry9z3-ff580a1dc1aea24a5ebf71a5d0881fad{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-4ry9z3-ff580a1dc1aea24a5ebf71a5d0881fad av_two_third  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-lgb3rrwn-23f2074529f72dae04532c0c14e9a7f3\">\n.avia-image-container.av-lgb3rrwn-23f2074529f72dae04532c0c14e9a7f3 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-lgb3rrwn-23f2074529f72dae04532c0c14e9a7f3 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-lgb3rrwn-23f2074529f72dae04532c0c14e9a7f3 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-249 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-249 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/leah_gauthier_12-1.jpg\" alt='' title='leah_gauthier_12'  height=\"982\" width=\"1443\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/leah_gauthier_12-1.jpg 1443w, https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/leah_gauthier_12-1-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/leah_gauthier_12-1-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/leah_gauthier_12-1-1030x701.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/leah_gauthier_12-1-705x480.jpg 705w, https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/leah_gauthier_12-1-450x306.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1443px) 100vw, 1443px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-2z2o6n-58620c8879a3b5610bbe5780cde78402\">\n.flex_column.av-2z2o6n-58620c8879a3b5610bbe5780cde78402{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-2z2o6n-58620c8879a3b5610bbe5780cde78402 av_one_third  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-lgb3q7y9-920285e532712efd0ff7077c701ab84f\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-lgb3q7y9-920285e532712efd0ff7077c701ab84f{\nheight:30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-lgb3q7y9-920285e532712efd0ff7077c701ab84f hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-3  el_before_av_heading  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-cq3y7-3d91caacafa0db62a11ab2289a394779\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-cq3y7-3d91caacafa0db62a11ab2289a394779{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-cq3y7-3d91caacafa0db62a11ab2289a394779 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-cq3y7-3d91caacafa0db62a11ab2289a394779 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-cq3y7-3d91caacafa0db62a11ab2289a394779 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_textblock '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Bio<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-lgb3kfzo-2c927f862057a9cb660eb5bd3355b8e1 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Leah Gauthier (Born Chicago, Illinois) is an intermedia artist living and working in Maine. She makes <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wild-inspired embroidered paintings, living sculpture, and often edible community works exploring resilience in the wake of climate change, food migration, and her dreams of an interspecies centered future.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Her work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and alternative spaces in the U.S. and abroad. She has been an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony, Eyebeam and The Burren College of Art and has received awards and grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, Puffin Foundation, the Kindling Fund (for Life Forms) and the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Leah earned an M.F.A from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts University and her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>She is a co-founder and member of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lifeformsart.org\/\">Life Forms<\/a><\/strong>, a<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sculpture collective of twelve artists, and an experiment in artistic community building. Through a series of exhibitions over four years (2023-2027), each in a different location and featuring a different grouping of artists, the collective aims to deepen relationships with each other, discover new connections through their creative work, and share in conversation with the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3567","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5194,"href":"https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3567\/revisions\/5194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leahgauthier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}