Leila Verley
Santa Fe, NM, 87508 • leila.verley@iaia.edu
EDUCATION
• Institute of American Indian Arts
BFA Studio Arts, Printmaking, 2026
• Creative Arts Secondary School
Saint Paul, MN, 2020
EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS
2025:
• Valentines Gay Market
• IAIA Holiday Art Market
• IAIA Creative Writing & Printmaking Anthology
• IAIA Student & Graduate Art Market, Santa Fe Indian Market
• We are Still Queer exhibition, Two Rivers Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
• IAIA Anthology: Limbing-Limning
• Milagro portfolio exchange
• Major Arcana portfolio exchange
2024:
• Smoldering Matches portfolio exchange
• Home IAIA Fall portfolio exchange
• IAIA Holiday Art Market
• IAIA Anthology: Blossoming Through the Fence
2022:
• IAIA Art Rush exhibition, IAIA Balzar Gallery, Santa Fe
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
2025:
• Organized IAIA Holiday print sale
• IAIA Fall visit day relief demo
• President of IAIA printmaking club
• Organized IAIA print sale
• Screen printing demo for IAIA Introduction to printmaking class
• Queer Prom event organizer, Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery, Santa Fe, NM
• IAIA Spring open house relief demo
2024:
• IAIA Fall open house tour guide
2023:
• IAIA Freshman orientation leader
2022:
• IAIA Associated Student Government representative
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
2025:
• IAIA CIB/Tribal scholarship
• IAIA Merit scholarship
• IAIA American Indian College Fund scholarship
• Anderson Ranch scholarship to attend Masterclass: Innovations in Lithography led by Brian Shure and Valpuri Remling
• Dean's List, Spring semester
2024:
• IAIA outstanding work in studio arts - printmaking award recipient
• Dean's List, Fall semester
• IAIA AICF-TCU General Fund scholarship
• IAIA CIB/Tribal scholarship
• IAIA Katherine Scallan retention scholarship
2023:
• IAIA AICF Tribal Colleges and Universities Chante Washta Wicasha Endowed Scholarship
• IAIA CIB scholarship
• IAIA Merit scholarship
2022:
• Dean's List, Fall semester
• IAIA Marshall and LeAnne Hunt scholarship
• IAIA CIB scholarship