LEANNE GILBERTSON is Director of the Northcutt Steele Gallery and Assistant Professor of Art at Montana State University Billings. She earned her M.A. in Art History from University of Iowa and her M.A and Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from University of Rochester where her studies were supported by a Jacob K. Javits fellowship and Henry Luce Foundation dissertation grant.

Prior to joining the faculty at MSUB in 2012 she held teaching positions at University of Pittsburgh, Sam Houston State University, and University of Toledo, and served as Curatorial Assistant for the Andy Warhol Film Project, Whitney Museum of American Art. She has been invited to present her research at a number of regional, national, and international conferences and art institutions, and her writing on contemporary art has been published in Art Journal, InVisible Culture, Pastelegram, and Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Studies. She is a native of Helena and a first-generation graduate of Montana State University. 

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