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Professional Experience

Sept 2007- present
Project Assistant, Printmaking Dept. at University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Supervisor: Cheryl Olsen-Sklar
Duties: assist professors, oversee organization and
stock of dept. supplies, press maintenance,
student work documentation

April 2007 Guest Artist, Saucedo Scholastic Academy, Chicago, IL
Duties: Lead ceramics demos for 2 classes of 30
students, and assisted students in creating
ceramic art as a special program during school
day

Oct 2005 Guest Artist, Martin Luther King Jr. Lab School,
Evanston, IL
For the class of Susan Watson
Duties: lead a two-day wheel throwing workshop with
class children

March 2005-July 2007
Instructor, Lill Street Learning Center, Chicago, IL
Director: Sara Allred
Duties: create curriculum and lead Chicago Public
School students in weekly ceramic handbuilding
classes

Nov 2003-July 2007
Technical Director of Children’s Program, Lillstreet
Art Center, Chicago, IL
Director-Bruce Robbins
Duties: hire and train program technicians, delegate
technical projects to Tech Assistants,organize
and maintain all department systems, purchase
and maintain all classroom supplies and
inventories, oversee all department firing
schedules

April 2003-June 2007
Instructor, Marwen, Chicago, IL
Present Director-Cyd Engel / Mike Nourse
Duties: design lesson plans and teach various ceramic
courses and workshops for children ages 11-18

Dec 2002-July 2007
Instructor, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
Director-Bruce Robbins
Duties: design lesson plans and teach various 2-D and
3-D courses and workshops for children and
adults,classes include drawing, sculpture, clay,
painting, and composition

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Leah Schreiber attended Illionis State University from
1997-2002 where she received her Bachelor of Fine Art
with a focus in painting, as well as multiple awards
including the School of Art Tuition Waver and the MJ
Scholarship/Grant. Her work, invested in her
relationship with feminism, gained attention from the
Women's Studies Department, resulting in Schreiber's
participation as a presenter at the 2002 Women's
Studies Symposium.

In 2002, she was awarded with a
Marshall Frankel Foundation Fellowship, and was
recently a resident at The Contemporary Artist Center
in North Adams, Massachusetts. From 2002-2007,
Schreiber worked as the Technical Director of the
Children's Program as well as an instructor at
Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago. In addition to her
work at Lillstreet, she was an Artist-Teacher at The
Marwen Foundation and has been a guest artist in
multiple Chicago Public Schools.

Schreiber holds an active exhibition record including
shows in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Arkansas,
Pennsylvania, and Vermont. Currently residing in
Milwaukee, she attends The University of Wisconsin,
working toward her MFA in Painting.

Email: leah@partsandlaborcollective.com
Phone: 773.771.8672