Leslie Brown is a faculty member at several Inland Empire colleges and received the honor of being voted faculty member of the year and advisor of the year at both Riverside Community College and Mount San Jacinto Community College in 2001. She was also nominated and received into Who’s, Who of American Teachers in 2002. She is the gallery director for Riverside Community Colleges Landis Art Center Gallery.

Leslie's BFA is from Carnegie Mellon University and MA from The University of New Mexico. She is a respected painter and printmaker and educator in Southern California whose work is included in several private and public collections throughout the United States. She has received National Endowment Funding as Artist in Residence at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony and a fellowship from the University of New Mexico to study at Tamarind Printmaking Institute.  She has been an Artist in Residence since 2001 at Corona Heritage Park, in Corona, CA. 

Artist Picture by: Michael J. Elderman
Orange Picture by: Carla Conti Bender