Leah Foushee Waller is a visual artist and art educator living and working in Hillsborough, North Carolina.  She received her Bachelor in Fine Arts from East Carolina University in 2002, and studied under Master figurative sculptor Martine Vaugel in the Loire Valley of France. Drawing from the realms of personal experience, mid-life existence, as well as the worlds of the natural and metaphysical, her personal work embraces the notion of realism as metaphor.  Using the cast metals of bronze, aluminum, and iron, her pieces exert a playfulness with scale and color while exploring themes of motherhood and self-discovery.

Michael Waller is a Kinston, North Carolina native and has been working as a professional sculptor for over 20 years.  He received his Bachelor in Fine Arts from East Carolina University in 1997, and subsequently worked as a foundryman at Carolina Bronze Foundry, then as a metalsmith at Vega Metals while pursuing sculpture as personal expression. His most recent series of personal work centers on the process of casting iron directly in wooden molds. This “Reaction Series” of cast iron art examines the relationship between the human and natural world experiences of cause and effect, seeking order within chaos, and recognizing serendipity amongst objection.’