Léo Lee is a paper-based artist who works in books, print, publishing, and papermaking. She was born in Belgium to an Alsatian father and a Yankee mother. Léo strongly believes that everyone should have access to creative expression and support to find it. This belief has led her to teach all ages on several continents. Locally, has taught as an adjunct at Trinity and the former Southwest School of Art, where she briefly ran the Book and Paper department until May 2020. Motivated by concerns with toxicity in the studio and current environmental concerns she is continuously looking for empowering and sustainable ways to make and communicate in art. Léo holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MA, and an MFA from the University of Iowa. Currently, she teaches art at St. Paul’s Episcopal Montessori and is, slowly, starting her own art school. When she is not making art, she is planting native pollinator plants, fruit trees and plants useful for art-making, eating or napping with her cats.