Leslie Parke, a painter from upstate New York, is a recipient of the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Artist-in-Residence Grant at the Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, France, and the George Sugarman Foundation Grant, among others. She has exhibited at the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, the Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas, the Fernbank Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Parke has a BA and MA from Bennington College. Her work is in numerous corporate and private collections.