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 IAIA Holiday Art Market
• 2025 IAIA Creative Writing & Printmaking Anthology
• 2025 IAIA Student & Graduate Art Market, Santa Fe Indian Market
• 2025 We are Still Queer exhibition, Two Rivers Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
• 2025 IAIA Anthology: Limbing-Limning
• 2025 Milagro portfolio exchange
• 2025 Major Arcana portfolio exchange
• 2024 Smoldering Matches portfolio exchange
• 2024 Home IAIA Fall portfolio exchange
• 2024 IAIA Holiday Art Market
• 2024 IAIA Anthology: Blossoming Through the Fence
• 2022 IAIA Art Rush exhibition, IAIA Balzar Gallery, Santa Fe
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
• Organized IAIA Holiday print sale, Fall 2025
• 2025 IAIA Fall visit day relief demo
• 2025 – 2026 President of IAIA printmaking club
• Organized IAIA print sale, Spring 2025
• 2025 Screen printing demo for IAIA Introduction to printmaking class
• 2025 Queer Prom event organizer, Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery, Santa Fe, NM
• 2025 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
• 2025 IAIA Merit scholarship
• 2025 - 2026 IAIA American Indian College Fund scholarship
• 2025 Anderson Ranch scholarship to attend Masterclass: Innovations in Lithography led by Brian Shure and Valpuri Remling
• 2025 Dean's List, Spring semester
• 2024 - 2025 IAIA outstanding work in studio arts - printmaking award recipient
• 2024 Dean's List, Fall semester
• 2024 - 2025 IAIA AICF-TCU General Fund scholarship
• 2024 IAIA CIB/Tribal scholarship
• 2024 IAIA Katherine Scallan retention scholarship
• 2023-2024 IAIA AICF Tribal Colleges and Universities Chante Washta Wicasha Endowed Scholarship
• 2023 IAIA CIB scholarship
• 2023 IAIA Merit scholarship
• 2022 Dean's List, Fall semester
• 2022 - 2023 IAIA Marshall and LeAnne Hunt scholarship
• 2022 IAIA CIB scholarship