Curator Spotlight: Leslie Anne Condon

Leslie Anne Condon is a Boston-area multidisciplinary artist and independent curator, interested in Critical Race Art History and issues of representation within the arts. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in English and a minor in the Fine Arts. She briefly attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts as a Diploma student and earned her Post Baccalaureate in Fine Art 3D from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2011.

“In 2020, I developed the idea for New Narratives, an exhibition and storyteller series that centers the voices of Boston-area artists and storytellers from our Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander(AAPI) communities. The project has been a way for me to support and uplift my fellow creatives and community members amid the ongoing violence due to COVID-fueled anti-AAPI rhetoric. My own parents fled Laos after the Vietnam War, eventually settling in Lynn, MA. Having known some of their struggles, I feel personally compelled to advocate for the countless stories from the AAPI diaspora that have not yet been told.“

—-Leslie Anne Condon

Enjoy a Saturday afternoon trip to the Embodied Identities! Come meet curator Leslie Condon and hear more about the exhibition and Leslie's curatorial process on December 11 at Pao Arts Center!

Photo credit: Mel Taing. Ode to Durian (We Are Ineffable), Digital Photography 18 x 24