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Leslie Gates
Leslie Gates is an associate professor of art education at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses and supervises teacher candidates. In 2017, Leslie was named the Pennsylvania Art Educator of the Year. Leslie lives in Lancaster, PA with her husband and two children. Leslie’s artist books and text-based sculptures deal with a range of issues related to sacred objects. Her work, which often explores the question of how something is rendered sacred, asks the viewer to consider the sacred in everyday lived experiences. Her books elevate experiences to sacred memory: discarded fuzzies from her daughter’s blanket memorialize the daily liturgy of putting children to bed, a tragic experience as a Title IX reporter yields work about the sacred nature of confidentiality, and an altered book calls into question sacred truths of teaching in the 1880s. More recently, Leslie has expanded notions of the sacred in work that addresses a number of contemporary conundrums. For more details, visit
Contact: Millersville University of Pennsylvania, 40 Dilworth Rd, Millersville, PA 17551, USA.