Leslie Rogers is an interdisciplinary artist based in Detroit. Her arts background is in puppetry and quilting, and her degrees are from the Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA) and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Sculpture & Extended Media (MFA). 

She has shown or performed at The Hammer Museum and Human Resources in LA, Threewalls, Links Hall, and ACRE TV in Chicago, The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit as part of ESPTV, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, as well as out of her van over a 9000 mile 'Merikan Merkintile tour with musician Nelly Kate. Also in Philadelphia, she curated exhibits as a member of the Little Berlin and touring performance with Puppet Uprising, was a founding member of PuppeTyranny performance collective, and has shown or performed at Fjord, Practice Gallery, Vox Populi, AUX, AWFUL Wrestling, International House, Bodega, Little Berlin, and others. In Detroit, she has shown at Cave Gallery, Public Pool, Wasserman Projects, The College for Creative Studies, Salon Catroit, the Good Tyme Writers Buffet, and has published and performed with Barbed Magazine. 

She has been awarded artist residencies at Monson Arts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Craft, Jentel Foundation, Stoveworks, The Soil Factory, Prairie Ronde, ACRE, AS220, Art Farm Nebraska, Mildred’s Lane, the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, and a postdoctoral fellowship from the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan.