Leslie Parke is an artist from upstate New York and works in a studio that spans the top floor of a 19th-century factory building. She is a recipient of the Esther and Adolph Gottlieb Grant for Individual Support, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest grant as artist-in-residence at the Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, France, and the George Sugarman Foundation Grant. Her work is in numerous corporate and private collections. She currently exhibits in Washington, D.C., Houston, Texas, and Boston, MA.