Maia Leppo

Maia graduated from Tufts University in 2008 with a degree in Biology and Community Health. She received training in jewelry and metals from various craft schools, including Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Pocosin Arts, Penland School of Crafts and Haystack

Mountain School of Crafts. She received her Masters of Fine Art from SUNY New Paltz. She has participated in artist residencies at Arrowmont and Pocosin and is currently a resident artist at the Brewhouse Association on the south side of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Made almost exclusively out of sheet steel, he work is an exploration of the intersection between the botanical and the industrial and focuses on creating volume out of flatness.