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Education


MFA Art, 2024, Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan

Preparing Future Faculty Fellow, 2023, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan

BFA Performance and Choreography, 2015, Honors Tutorial College, Ohio University, summa cum laude


Teaching/Selected Work Experience


Creative Careers Fellow, Arts Initiative, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (present)

Graduate Student Instruction Consultant, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (present)

Graduate Student Research Assistant, Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
End of Life Discursive Design Researcher, supervised by Dr. Bruce Tharp (2023)
Graduate Student Instructor, Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (present)
Integrative Project GSI, supervised by Jonathan Rajewski (2022-2023)

Teacher, Minding Motion for Graceful Aging, Seattle, WA (2019-2020)

Co-Director, LanDforms Dance, Seattle, WA (2015-2021)

Artist Educator, The Yard, Chilmark, MA (2015-2018)

Instructor of Record, Ohio University (2015)
Introduction to Yoga for non-majors
Introduction to Ballet for non-majors

Masterclass Instructor

  • 2025 | Sound walking for mindfulness, Breath of Fresh Air, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • 2025 | Creative Movement for Memory Care, Silver Club, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • 2024 | Nature Journaling, Nature Rx Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • 2024 | Environmental Listening, Nichols Arboretum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • 2024 | Visible Mending, Shapiro Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • 2024 | Freaky Fibers, Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • 2022 | Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, WA
  • 2021  | Achievement First Bushwick Middle School, NYC
  • 2019 |  Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, WA
  • 2019 | St. Bonaventure University, Olean, NY
  • 2019, 2018 | Ohio University, Athens, OH
  • 2019 | Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI

Grants and Awards



Residencies


  • (Upcoming) Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture, Sisters, OR
  • Jack Straw Cultural Center Audio Artist in Residence, 2022, Seattle, WA
  • Plyspace Artists in Residence, 2020 (residency awarded, program canceled), Muncie, IN
  • Velocity Dance Center Bridge Project, 2019, Seattle, WA
  • The Croft, Creative Resident, Summer 2018, Charlevoix, MI



Speaking


  • 2025 | Guest Critic, Integrative Project, Stamps School of Art & Design
  • 2024 | Guest Lecturer, Gender Euphoria: exploring gender, identity, and sexuality in contemporary art and design, Stamps School of Art & Design
  • 2024 | Guest Lecturer, Interarts Performance Forum, Stamps School of Art & Design
  • 2024 | Guest Critic, Integrative Project, Stamps School of Art & Design
  • 2024 | Panelist and Featured Artist, Zines and Audio as an Alternative to Police Presence in Freeway Park: a case study, College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL
  • 2024 | Paper Presentation, Choose Your Own Adventure Narrative Frameworks as Tools For Exploring Survivor's Guilt in Caregiving Relationships, Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • 2023/4 | Guest Critic, Marking Memory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • 2018 | Speaker, Feminist Strategies in Creative Collaboration, Women’s Studies Roundtable, Alfred University, Alfred, NY


Creative Work: solo and two-person projects


  • 2025 | (Upcoming) Breach of Contract | live animation | Co. Productions, Seattle, WA
  • 2025 | (Upcoming) A Field Guide to the Light Rail | audio installation | Link Light Rail in partnership with 4Culture, Seattle, WA
  • 2025 | Three Times as Tightly | audio installation and live listening party | Canterbury House, Ann Arbor, MI, in partnership with the Arts Initiative
  • 2025 | Imminent Demise | video, sculpture | CYNK Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI
  • 2022 | Tiny Pleasures | experimental storytelling podcast | self-produced
  • 2022 | Into the Lint Trap | performance | Secret Location, Seattle, WA created with Ari Kaufman
  • 2021 | Field Guides at Freeway Park | site specific audio guides | created with Hannah Simmons, produced by the Friends of Freeway Park and Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, Seattle, WA
  • 2021 | envelope: blueprints for unhad hugs | interactive multimedia website, print zine, live event | 12th Avenue Arts, Seattle, WA | created with Alyza Del-Pan Monley
  • 2021 | Yellow House | site specific performance, digital performance archive | MAC Gallery, Wenatchee Valley College, WA | created with Hannah Rice
  • 2020 | Cooped Up: Drive in Dances for Cooped Up People | audio-guided driving experience with live performance | created with Evelena Doell and Ari Kaufman, funding from the City of Seattle
  • 2020 | Cooped Up: We’re Still Inside | audio-guided driving experience with live performance | created with Evelena Doell and Ari Kaufman with funding from the City of Seattle
  • 2019 | AfterBANG! | film | Pathways Arts, Chilmark, MA created with Evelena Doell and Danielle Mulcahy
  • 2018 | Which Would You Rather, Bee or a Wasp | dance | The Yard, Chilmark, MA created with Abby Bender
  • 2018 | Swimming in the Pool of Truth | dance |Pathways Arts, Chilmark, MA created with Abby Bender
  • 2018 | Lyrical Dance | dance | St. Bonaventure University, NY | created with Evelena Doell
  • 2017 | The Life in Plastic | dance | The Yard, Chilmark, MA | created with Evelena Doell
  • 2017 | The Home Show | site specific dance | Oak Bluffs Public Library, Oak Bluffs, MA | created with Abby Bender and Evelena Doell, funding from the Martha’s Vineyard Local Cultural Council
  • 2017 | TRAMMEL | dance | Ohio University, OH | created with Evelena Doell
  • 2017 | TRAMMEL | dance | Pathways Arts, MA | created with Evelena Doell
  • 2017 | #Wisdom | dance | The Yard, MA | created with Evelena Doell
  • 2017 | SILO | site specific dance | The FARM Institute, MA | created in collaboration with Evelena Doell and Danielle Mulcahy
  • 2016 | TRAMMEL | dance | Triskelion Arts, NYC | created with Evelena Doell
  • 2015 | Never Again, Every Year | Dance, shadow puppets, custom instruments | Create_Space, OH
  • 2015 | A Stroll with Fido and Lila | Dance | American College Dance Association Gala Concert, Memorial Auditorium, Athens, OH

Creative Work: Group Exhibitions (selected)



  • 2025 | Logical Fatalist | sculpture | sometimes space, Ypsilanti, MI
  • 2025 (Upcoming) | Ypsilanti Zine Jamboree | Organizer and co curator | Ypsilanti Freighthouse, Ypsilanti, MI
  • 2024 | Art in Odd Places: CARE | Just, Let, performance | 14th St. New York, NY
  • 2024 | Scopaesthesia | Breach of Contract, curator and co-presenter, film screening | sometimes space, Ypsilanti, MI
  • 2024 | As Far as There | Tender Tender, multimedia sculpture | Stamps Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
  • 2024 | Slow. Steady. Still | Breach of Contract, object performance | School of Music, Theater and Dance, Ann Arbor, MI
  • 2024 | The Living Room | UnHad Hugs, creative coding | Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
  • 2024 | QUEER | You Tipped Today, sculpture | Stone and Spoon Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI
  • 2023 | Imperfect FutureS | Squishy Squashy Heart, object performance | soft projects, Ypsilanti, MI
  • 2023 | As Far as Here | The Undone: Do It, multimedia installation | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, winner MFA First Year Show Award
  • 2023 | XO Seattle | A Field Guide for XO Seattle, site specific audio | Coliseum Theater, Seattle, WA
  • 2022 | Co-Productions Show 3 | Anenomeenie, performance | 10 Degrees, Seattle, WA
  • 2021 | 6 Pack | Lush, zoom-based animated e-zine with audio | Washington Ensemble Theater, Seattle, WA
  • 2019 | Northwest New Works | The Garden of Expectations | dance | On the Boards, Seattle, WA, created with Evelena Doell and performers
  • 2019 | Risk/Reward | The Garden of Expectations | dance | Imago Theater, Portland, OR
  • 2019 | The Bridge Project | The Garden of Expectations | dance | Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, WA


Commissions/Skilled Work (selected)


  • 2025 | Vocalist | Sea Cave Breathing, by Julia Edith Rigby
  • 2024 | Vocalist | Flowing Violence, by Okyoung Noh (노오경)
  • 2024 | Vocalist | Life Cycle of a Fever Dream, by Julia Edith Rigby
  • 2024 | Sound Engineer | The Crip Mad Dance Archive, by Petra Kuppers
  • 2024 | Sound Designer/Composer | AUTOMORPHS, by Kara Beadle and Andy Zacek, produced by Cascade Bicycle Club, Seattle, WA
  • 2024 | Sound Designer and Field Recordist | Campbient Vol. 5, produced by Real More Real Records
  • 2023/5 | Frontperson, Song Writer, Vocalist, Violinist | Iconic Chronic
  • 2024 | Actor, Puppeteer | Once upon a time in the far future.., by Stephanie Morisette, Duderstadt Center, Ann Arbor, MI
  • 2023 | Sound Designer/Composer | That’s a Handful, by Alyza Del-Pan Monley, Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, WA
  • 2019 | Dancer/Actor | Orphans, Thieves, and Other Unlived Lives, by Jessica Jobaris and General Magic, BASE, Seattle, WA
  • 2018 | Dancer | BAD TOUR NOW!, by Jordan MacInstosh-Hougham, Seattle, WA
  • 2015 | Dancer | Atlas, by Jesse Keller Jason, Jacob’s Pillow, Becket, MA
  • 2015/8 | Dancer | What’s Written Within, intergenerational dance company, Edgartown, MA
  • 2014 | Dancer | Adagio, by Douglas Nielsen, Shirley Wimmer Dance Theater, Athens, OH
  • 2013 | Puppeteer | The Total This and That Deathlife Circus in Two Parts: Part 1–This, Part Two--That, by Peter Schumann in collaboration with members of Bread & Puppet Theater, Glover, VT
  • 2013 | Puppeteer | Zebra, by Peter Schumann in collaboration with members of Bread & Puppet Theatre, Glover, VT
  • 2013 | Puppeteer | Shatterer of Worlds Chapel with Naturalization Services for Applicants Requesting Citizenship in the Shattered World, by Peter Schumann in collaboration with members of Bread & Puppet Theater, Glover, VT
  • 2013 | Dancer | The Art of Conversation, by Alex Springer and Xan Burley, Shirley Wimmer Dance Theater, Athens, OH
  • 2012 | Dancer | Displacement, by Adriana Durant, Templeton Blackburn Memorial Auditorium, Athens, OH




Press 

Hyperallergic, “The University of Michigan’s Gender Euphoria,” October 6, 2024, by Natalie Haddad

The Record, Semester of Gender Euphoria celebrates diversity through art at U-M,

“Leah Crosby Recieves Creative Careers Residency”, April 15, 2024

National Geographic Travel, May 13, 2020, by Amanda Castleman

Crosscut Magazine, April 29, 2020, by Margo Vansynghel

Seattle Times Pacific NW Magazine, November 29, 2020, by Erika Schultz

Seattle Dances, April 25, 2020, by West Liberty

WBFO NPR, April 29th, 2018, interview for weekend edition






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