About
Leslie Elliottsmith is from New Orleans and holds a BS in Art Education and a MFA in printmaking from LSU. Her artwork is narrative and allegorical focusing on climate change and misplaced policies that injure both the environment and society. She lived in Baton Rouge for ten years getting her degrees and then teaching at LSU. She has resided in Alexandria since 1983 when she became education curator for the Alexandria Museum of Art. In 1990, she began a new career, instructing and designing Survey of the Arts at Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts (the state residential gifted school) in an innovative online high school program and retired in 2015 as LSMSA director of online learning. She also has taught adjunct at LSU, UNO, LSUA, LC, NSU, and ULM as well as a completed series of artist in residencies across the State of Louisiana. In 1994, she received the Louisiana State Visual Artists Fellowship for painting. Her art works are part of many public and private collections nationally and she has exhibited her work in 268 national exhibitions. In 2025, she received a CERF grant from the Baton Rouge Arts Council. She is represented by LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans and Baton Rouge Gallery in Baton Rouge.