Publications:
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- My Abortion: My Choice, Woman Made Gallery, 2024 My Choice
- Pitchick (multimedia chapbook/zine), Obsolete Press, 2024
- West (limited edition chapbook), Obsolete Press, 2023 Click to Order!
- Glitter Clit (multimedia chapbook/zine), Obsolete Press, 2023
- “Polar Vortex,” presspausepress.com, 2020
- “Kitchen Sink,” presspausepress.com, 2020
- “4:26 am,” presspausepress.com, 2020 Press Pause
- “Tinder Date #3,” Peach Fuzz Magazine Vol 8 Issue 1, 2020
- “fed,” Peach Fuzz Magazine Vol 7 Issue 2, 2020
- “Winter Intimacy,” Jam & Sand Journal, 2020
- “Witness Tree,” Jam & Sand Journal, 2020
- “Santa Barbara Patron,” The Rye Whiskey Review, 2020
- “lean,” The Rye Whiskey Review, 2020
- “Foxhead ends the night,” The Rye Whiskey Review, 2020
- “cycles,” The Rye Whiskey Review, 2020 Rye Review
Readings and Performances:
- (forthcoming) Mission Creek Festival Lit Walk, Reader, Iowa City, IA 2025
- Art Show at the WRAC, Group Show & Poetry Performance, Iowa City, IA 2025
- What We’re Doing In Iowa Instead of Church, One-Woman Show, Live Performance, Peter Paul Luce Gallery, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA 2025
- This Charmed Life, “Hands Off” Gallery Performance, Ali Hval, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA 2025 Performance Clips!
- Storytelling on Orchard Street, Podcast, Brooklyn, NY, 2024 Listen & Watch Here!
- Leisha & Pete Howl At The Moon, Live Performance, The Trumpet Blossom, Iowa City, IA 2024
- What We’re Doing In Iowa Instead of Church, One-Woman Show, Live Performance, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA 2024
- Body Freedom For Every(Body), Reproductive Justice Poetry Artist, Iowa City, IA 2024
- DIY Publishing in and through Iowa, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA 2024
- PO/ART/RY, ArtiFactory, Iowa City, IA 2024
- Very Swell Variety Show, Young Ethel’s, Brooklyn, NY, 2023
- Inspired Word Underground Poets Open Mic, Urban Vegan Kitchen, NYC, 2023
- SAEX, One-woman show, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA 2023
- Emma Goldman Women’s Clinic Spring Fundraiser Featured Artist, Iowa City, IA 2021
- Drop the Mic Spoken Word Competition, 1st Place Iowa City, IA 2019
- The Hook, Open Mic Presenter, Cedar Rapids, IA 2018
- Group Poetry Reading SOMOS, Taos, NM 2018
- Va Va Voom! Burlesque Choreographer / Solo & Group Performer / Instructor, Cedar Rapids, IA 2013-2017
- Model, Artwear by Judy Bales, Inciting Rapture Gilded Pear Gallery, Cedar Rapids, IA 2016
News:
“Leisha Nicole Stanek commands the space at PS1” by Kayla Person, Daily Iowan 2024 Daily Iowan Article
“Iowa City artists learn from drawing live models” by Isabelle Lubguban, Daily Iowan 2024 Daily Iowan Article
Recent Related Work History:
Workshop Instructor: 2023 – Present
Leading instruction on zine-making, printing, and DIY publishing at community arts centers, including Princeton University, The Center for Book Arts, NYC, MCBA, Minneapolis, MN, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA. Instructor CBA NYC
Art/Life Model: Nov 2009 – Present
Providing a full range of self-directed life drawing poses, from gestures to sustained poses for 2–4-hour classes at the University of Iowa, Stanley Museum of Art, Coe College, Cornell College, and others.
Simulated Patient: Aug 2023 – Present, University of Iowa School of Medicine, Iowa City, IA
Portraying all characteristics of a real patient, simulating signs and symptoms in a repetitive and consistent manner. Supplying constructive feedback to learners in communication sessions. Live Body for physical examinations. Strong improv skills.
Model Coordinator: May 2023 – May 2024, University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, Iowa City, Iowa
Interviewing, hiring, and training life models for classroom instruction. Conducting instructor training sessions for models-in-classroom. Responsible for the activity and placement of models. Acts as a medium between the models and instructors.
Education:
- Death doula training, The Dying Year, 2021
- BFA, Mount Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, IA, 2006