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Current and up-coming exhibitions:

NEW! My artist books are included in l'art du livre origami, by Jean-Charles Trebbi. English and Spanish translation due out in 2022.

Figure 1: Carolyn aka CeLe with BirdMan Over Borderlands, Burning Man, Center Camp Exhibit 2016, acrylic on mural canvas, © Carolyn Leigh, 2016.

NEW books by friends include:

• Mutant Vehicles, Art on Wheels at Burning Man by Alexandra Lier, Speedseakers Productions Come ride with us!
• The Forgotten Botanist, Sara Plummer Lemmon's Life of Science and Art by Wynne Brown. Tucson's Mt. Lemmon is named for Sara Plummer. Order an autographed copy from Antigone Books Tucson. Wynne Brown studied Scientific Illustration at the University of Arizona. Check out the book on Don Sayner and our unique course.



Figure 2: Installation photo with Aeries Cycle, my five piece fiber sculpture, during MOCA-Tucson's 2010 Inaugural Exhibition: Made in Tucson, Born in Tucson, Live in Tucson, Part 1 at 265 S. Church Ave, Tucson, AZ. More info at Moca-Tucson.org. Photograph by Pamela Ridgeway.




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CAROLYN LEIGH - ARTIST'S BOOKS in public collections:



Barrio y Calle titles:

• Barrio y Campo: Sombras de la Noche (06.09.25): Davidson Library, University of California Santa Barbara
• Barrio Libre (05.09.06): Davidson Library, University of California Santa Barbara
• Barrio Sur (05.05.08): Young Research Library, University of California Los Angeles
• Calle Sin Sombras (07.10.31): University of Southern California
• Calle Sin Sombras (07.12.31): University of Denver, Penrose Library, Special Collections
• House of Cards (07.04.16): Lafayette College, Skillman Library Special Collections
• House of Cards (07.05.22): Texas Tech
• House of Cards (07.08.20): University of California San Diego
• House of Cards (07.08.24): University of Michigan Arts Library
• House of Cards (07.12.28): Cal Poly, Kennedy Library Special Collections

Figure 3: Barrio Sur (05.05.08), a dos-à-dos book of intersecting city streets, collection of the University of California, Los Angeles.

borderlands broadsides y books titles:

• odds para passing through the frontera on a dos dice day: 1 set in the Permanent Collection of "Bokartas", Vilnius, Lithuania; 1 set in the Independent Press Archive at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.

Out of the Ark titles:

• Raven's Flight (05.03): University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
• Raven's Flight (05.05.07): Young Research Library, University of California Los Angeles

Painted Faces titles:

• Nightfall Faces (05.09.24): Ringling School of Art & Design
• Nightfall Faces (05.09.28): Rhode Island School of Design
• Nightfall Faces (05.11.12): Dartmouth College
• Primary Faces (05.08.30): University of North Carolina
• Primary Faces (05.08.31): University of San Diego
• Primary Faces (05.09.05): UC, Santa Barbara Arts Library
• Harlequin Faces (05.09.24): Phoenix Public Library

The Sketchbook Project from my Black Book Series: Untitled 1, Untitled 2, odds para passing, and casa de vecinos extraños. more info on The Sketchbook Project

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Publications:

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  Art Dealer in the Last Unknown, Ron Perry and New Guinea Art, the early years: 1964 - 1973
  by Carolyn Leigh and Ron Perry
  Join Ron in the jungles of New Guinea on his search for tribal art: 320 pages of adventure, over 450 early photographs. Order info at Art-Pacific.com

  Read a chapter preview from Art Dealer in the Last Unknown




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  New Guinea Tribal Art eGuide by Carolyn Leigh with Ron Perry and Doug Mehaffey. Find out about your fabulous piece of New Guinea tribal art. The eGuide provides quick info about New Guinea art and art areas with links to more information. The eGuide contains over 130 photographs and 10 maps, plus adventure photos from Ron's explorations in New Guinea. Buy now from Amazon or from the Apple Store through iTunes for all your electronic book readers - only $3.99.




• A Simple Origami Booklet..., Ampersand, the Quarterly journal of the Pacific Center for the Book Arts, Fall 2008, variations on origami booklets. read the article

• A Studio to Go, Ampersand, the Quarterly journal of the Pacific Center for the Book Arts, Summer 2008, article about my travel studios for book arts; reprinted in PaperWorks, the Journal of the Sonoran Collective for Paper and Book Artists, Spring 2009, Vol. 9.3. read the article

• "Shock Art" featured artist in "The Shocker, the Wichita State University Alumni Magazine", Summer 2008.
• 4 Contemporary Calaveras: Koshare, Mirror Mirror, Punk Two Tattoo and River View, "Sand Script, Art and Literary Magazine", 2006, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ

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