Umberger, Leslie (Personal Name)

Umberger, Leslie. Sublime spaces & visionary worlds, 2007: CIP t.p. (Leslie Umberger)

Something to take my place, 2015: title page (Leslie Umberger) page 212 (Leslie Umberger is a curator and art historian who has specialized in the work of folk, self taught, and vernacular artists since the late 1990s)

SAAM, via WWW, February 28, 2017 (Leslie Umberger, curator (folk and self-taught art); Leslie Umberger is the curator of folk and self-taught art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum; she joined the museum staff in September 2012; her research interests include artists who navigated their own artistic path, often in oppressive environments; she has specialized also in artists who transformed their personal realms into comprehensive art environments, often over extended periods of time; from 1998 to 2012, Umberger was senior curator of exhibitions and collections at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisc.; she earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts (1990) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a master's degree in art history (1998) from the University of Colorado at Boulder)