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Leigh Waltz
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Leigh Waltz was born in Dayton, Ohio and took drawing lessons at an early age.  While attending high school, he traveled through Europe and spent a year on the island of Borneo (Kota Kinabalu, Sabah).  There, he learned photography and darkroom techniques with Amarjit Singh.  He left college to live in Vienna and Amsterdam with a painter and a photographer, then returned to the US to study at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.  Leigh earned a Bachelor’s degree  (cinema studies) at Columbia College, Hollywood, California.  After two years in the movie industry, Leigh served in the U.S. Navy then joined its reserve force.  He took art classes for a year and began work on a Master of Fine Art degree (printmaking) at the University of Cincinnati.  In 2000, the Navy sent him to Vicenza, Italy for nine months.  During that time, Leigh visited world-class art exhibitions in Venice, Florence, Milan, Rome and Turin.  He returned to the United States and created Sinclair Community College’s “Gallery of Innovators” skywalk in 2001, and returned to Europe for the Venice Biennale and ArtCologne.  He completed his MFA in 2002 and teaches photography, drawing and digital art at Sinclair Community College in Dayton.  He spent 6 months on deployment in Iraq (ending January, 2005) and will exhibit work based on that experience in 2007.  Leigh’s work hangs in Italy, Germany and the United States. 

With a very diverse range of interests, Leigh has always collaborated with writers, poets, puppeteers and other creative types.  Since 1999, he has done performance art and hosted live art events.  In 2005, he founded the Live Art Network to foster collaboration and information sharing (www.liveartnetwork.com)  Leigh and his wife, Miki live above his studio in Miamisburg.

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