2014 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Aimee Leon

Friday, March 07, 2014 @ 1:00pm, Key 3-4

Make, Stamp, Ship, Receive: Four Years with The Postcard Collective

Aimee Leon (b.1974.San Diego.California) received a BA in 2006 in Land Use and Water Resources from the Evergreen State College, Olympia WA. She is near completion of her MFA in Intermedia at Arizona State University where Leon is also completing a concurrent MA in Interdisciplinary Studies with a dual focus on Ethnographic and Animal Studies. Leon have served in the Navy, Air Force and Air National Guard, and was a practicing photographer and digital artist for 20 years before beginning her MFA. Now she primarily utilizes natural utilitarian animal materials, expended industrial items, and performativity to communicate about alternative commodity structures and sustainable actions within traditional communities. Leon was a competitive bodybuilder, current sheep shearer. Gratification is found in the latter.