Lesley Dill

LESLEY DILL: FILMS

Archives of American Art Short Film Series: Nancy Spero letter to Lucy Lippard, October 29, 1971

In her brief, one-sentence letter to the renowned writer, critic, curator, and activist Lucy Lippard, artist Nancy Spero expresses the sentiment shared with many of her peers who were fighting for equal recognition for women artists. Together with the papers of artists and writers including Emma Amos, Linda Nochlin, and Kathy Vargas and the records of organizations like the Women’s Building in Los Angeles, Spero’s letter reveals both her personal perspective, and the passion and determination of the feminist movement. This film gives voice to her battle cry through her contemporaries and through younger artists who continue to push for the diversity of the art world to be recognized and celebrated.

Lesley Dill at Tandem Press

Artist Lesley Dill is invited to a residency at Tandem Press to create 4 prints. The prints are an offshoot of her years of work with poetry, visionary experience, and American history, as seen in her travelling museum exhibition: "Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around Me"

The SHAKERS and WILDERNESS: Lacy Schutz with Lesley Dill [A film by Ed Robbins]

In this layered visual film, archival images and Lesley Dill's artworks blend to expand on a far ranging conversation about the Shakers and Mother Ann Lee, on the American Wilderness as a place of deviltry but also salvation to early settlers, on ecstatic and visionary religious experience, the poetry of Emily Dickinson, the stain of Slavery and more, All are themes that converge in visual artist Lesley Dill's major exhibition entitled "WILDERNESS: Light Sizzles Around Me". This film grew from a conversation between Lacy Schutz, Executive Director of the Shaker Museum in Mt. Lebanon, and visual artist Lesley Dill. The exhibition will premiere first at the Figge Museum in Iowa in the summer of 2021.

Art Wise: In the Studio with Lesley Dill

Meet Lesley Dill, whose work is in the permanent collection at the Hunter Museum. See her studio and learn about her artistic process. Lesley Dill’s artwork contemplates the intersection of text and figure, drawing from literature, faith, and her own travels. Her most recent work focuses on visionary women and their impact on the arts. Dill’s work was the focus of the Hunter Museum’s first traveling exhibition in 2009, and is among the most popular in the museum’s collection

LESLEY DILL & ED ROBBINS: Divide Light- The story of making an opera and the story of making a film of an opera

Artist Lesley Dill and filmmaker Ed Robbins discuss the creation of Divide Light as both a stage production and a film.

A documentary by Ed Robbins that chronicles the making of Rush and other works on view in Lesley Dill's 2007 exhibition at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Tremendous World.
2007 Pounding Glass Productions 54 minutes.