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which was a result of the artist finding a brief reference to the artist
Marietta Robusti Tintoretto in an anthology of women artists and received funding from the E.D. Foundation in 1994, 1995 and 1996. Leis’ intention with the exhibition was to resurrect Robusti's name to history. Her research
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and the role she played in her father's famous workshop. The exhibition toured cities in Italy and the United States for five years, and art critic Lucy
Lippard wrote an essay for the announcement brochure when the work debuted at the Jonson Gallery, UNM.
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wrote an essay for the exhibit's brochure. Some of the art was acquired for personal collections and the
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movement. In 1988, she published her first poems that related to her visual art which were included in the catalogue for an exhibition of a series of constructions and mixed media work at the UNM School of
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involved travel to Venice and the Uffizi in
Florence, Italy. The paintings and prose text that Leis executed toured for six years with her presenting slide lectures, and
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Leis' oil paintings were featured in a solo exhibition at Seton Hall
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Palazzo Mora, sponsored by the European Cultural Center; she was featured as part of the Alcove series at the
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In 2021, the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe mounted
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Smith, M. (February 10–16, 2000). "Portraits of an artist".
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