Leah Hardy – Metalsmith/Sculptor
Tour Stop Number: 82 or 3 days: 3
Type of Stop: Artist
Category: Metal Arts, Sculpture
Website 1: https://leahmhardy.com/home.html
Email: lhardy@uwyo.edu
Small-scale metal sculpture & jewelry
Employing insect-inspired forms which become metaphors for the present human condition, Leah Hardy’s current works are narrative and contemplative in nature. These stories illustrate personal inquiry into social behavior, ethics, politics, and most recently, climate concern. Fragmented, altered with mechanical elements or re-contextualized, these life forms reference our fascination with mortality and desire with the underlying yearning to connect, communicate and gain insight. These works offer a simple starting point for conversation about our humanity and how to work together to affect change on a local, national and universal level. . .all beginning with a shared sense of curiosity and wonder. Hardy holds a BFA, University of Kansas, and an MFA, Indiana University, Bloomington and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Currently Hardy resides in Abiquiu, New Mexico after retiring as Professor Emerita from the University of Wyoming Department of Art in 2023.