Speakers
- Marla McLeod
- Tufts University, MFA Candidate
Marla L. McLeod is best known for her realistic figurative paintings featuring women and children from the African Diaspora. Her work typically tackles various aspects of social and cultural contentions found in modern America. She uses her background in photography to capture her subjects prior to painting and lends her affinity for realism and dramatic lighting to the influence of the Baroque painter Caravaggio. Marla was born in California and now lives and works in Boston, MA. She received her Bachelor of Science in Studio Art from Southern Connecticut State University in 2014. She is currently the Graduate Fellow for the Tufts University Art Galleries at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts where she is attending the university in pursuit of her M.F.A. in Studio Art along with her Certificate in Museum Studies, expected in 2020.