Leslie Raymond (b. 1968) is a video artist living in San Antonio, Texas.

Her solo and collaborative films and videos have been presented at festivals including the 50th Sydney Film Festival (Australia) dLux Media Arts "Future Perfect" screening, the Lausanne Underground Film & Video Festival (Switzerland), Loop Barcelona, and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (Argentina) in which her work was awarded first place in video installation.

As vjFutureWorkerGirl, Raymond has mixed video live with experimental musicians and DJs at festivals and venues including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, and the Soap Factory (Minneapolis MN).

She and her partner Jason Jay Stevens are known as Potter-Belmar Labs, a collaborative team who have been working together in multimedia performance and installation since 1999.  Some of the places they have performed and exhibited work at are the Aurora Picture Show (Houston TX), the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (Lincoln NE), Eyewash (NYC), and the Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles CA).

Born in Saint Paul (MN) and raised in Detroit, Raymond received her BFA in film and video from Rhode Island School of Design in 1990, and an MFA from the University of Michigan School of Art & Design in 1999.  She is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she started the New Media Studio Program in the Department of Art & Art History.

Education

1999 MFA New Genres, University of Michigan School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor MI

1990 BFA Film & Video, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI

88-91The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL

Teaching Appointments

2005

Assistant Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Art & Art History

1999-2004

Lecturer, University of Michigan School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor MI

1998

Teaching Assistant, University of Michigan School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor MI

1998

Research Assistant, University of Michigan School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor MI

1996-2097

Full-time Arts Faculty, Cranbrook/Kingswood Upper School, Bloomfield Hills, MI

1996

Optical Printing Instructor, Midwest Media Artists' Access Center, St. Paul MN 

Screenings

All screenings after 2002 are in collaboration with Jason Jay Stevens, as Potter-Belmar Labs

2009

Artsfest Film Festival, Harrisburg PA (juried)

Experiments In Cinema, Albuquerque NM (juried)

"Manipulated Image at the Complex," Santa Fe, NM (invited)

Fargo Film Festival, ND (juried)

2008

Aurora Picture Show, 10th Anniversary Gala, Houston TX (invited)

46th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI (juried)

Art Space, College Art Association conference, Dallas TX (invited)

Slow Shorts Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia (juried)

Jump Start, San Antonio TX (invited)

2007

Detroit Film Center, Boxcar Film Series, Detroit MI (curated)

Detroit Film Center, A/V Club, Detroit MI (curated)

Hotel Pupik, Schrattenberg Austria (invited)

Maumau Underground, Loop Barcelona, Spain (invited)

Bike Gang Summit, San Antonio TX (invited)

Fargo Film Festival, ND (juried)

Reel Shorts, The Art Center, Saratoga Springs NY (juried)

Art Space, College Art Association conference, New York NY (curated)

2006

Sound Experimental Film Festival, Laredo TX (juried)

Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Switzerland (juried)

PDX Film Festival, Portland Oregon (juried)

Planet Ant Film & Video Festival, Detroit MI (juried)

2005

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI (juried)

OneTen Gallery, Madison WI (curated)

2004

Edible Rex Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI (juried)

Bearded Child Film Festival, Grand Rapids MN (juried)

Rooftop Films, Brooklyn NY (juried)

Axiom Theater, Houston TX (curated)

Chaos Studios Artspace, Colorado Springs CO (curated)

Milwaukee Underground Film Fest, Milwaukee WI (juried)

Project 101, Paris France (curated)

21 Grand, Oakland CA (curated)

Clinton Street Theater, Portland OR (curated)

111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco CA (curated)

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI (juried)

2003

Alabama Filmmakers Co-op, Huntsville AL (curated)

Lundabio Cinema, Reykjavik Iceland (curated)

Other Cinema, San Francisco CA (curated)

Brighton Film Festival, Brighton MI (curated)

Media Art Festival Friesland, the Netherlands (juried)

Oakland Opera Theater, Oakland CA (curated)

Antimatter Festival, Victoria BC, Canada (juried)

Zeitgeist Film Fest, San Francisco CA (juried)

20,000 Leagues Under the Industry Film Festival, Cleveland OH (juried)

Rx Gallery, San Francisco CA (curated)

Starlight Drive-In, Black Rock City NV (invited)

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA (curated)

Sydney Film Festival, Sydney Australia(curated)

Speedboat Gallery, St. Paul MN (invited)

Remote Lounge, NYC (juried)

2002

Ladyfest, San Francisco CA (invited)

2001

Immedia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI (invited)

Vital

ive Theater, Seattle WA (curated)

1999 Images Festival, Toronto Canada (juried)

EIGA Arts, Saga-ken Japan (curated)

Low-Fi Video, Belgrade Yugoslavia (curated)

1998

Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle WA (curated)

DCTV, NYC (curated)

Cinema Texas, Austin TX (juried)

Madcat International Film Festival, San Francisco (juried)

1997

AntiFilm Festival, Miami FL (juried)

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI (juried)

Athens Film Festival, Athens OH (juried)

Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte Film & Video Festival, Charlotte NC (juried)

Walker Art Center, Women in the Director's Chair, Minneapolis MN (juried)

Performances- in collaboration with Jason Jay Stevens as Potter-Belmar Labs

* indicates otherwise

2010

Media Archeology, Aurora Picture Show, Houston TX (spring)

2009

McDonough Museum, Youngstown OH

The Complex, Santa Fe NM

Plutoipa @ SXSW Festival, Austin TX

Be Johnny & Potter-Belmar Labs @ SCI-Arc, Los Angeles CA

"Sala Diaz is Open," Sala Diaz, San Antonio TX

2008

Say Sí, San Antonio TX

"Chocolate Alice," San Antonio Museum of Art, TX*

Aurora Picture Show, Houston TX

Southwest School of Arts & Crafts, San Antonio TX

Palo Alto Community College, San Antonio TX

Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria BC Canada

Bearded Child Film Festival, Minneapolis MN

"Intelligensia," Eyewash, Brooklyn NY

Materials and Applications, Los Angeles CA

Central Cinema, Seattle WA

21 Grand, Oakland CA

Rotture, Portland OR

DIVA, Eugene OR

Other Cinema, San Francisco CA

Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles CA

7 Dudley Cinema, Venice CA

Basement Films, Albuquerque NM

The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln NE

The Dallas Contemporary, Dallas TX*

McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio TX

2007

University of St. Cloud, Minnesota

Super Happy Fun Land, Houston TX

University of Passau, Germany*

Ambulante Gallery, Passau Germany*

San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio TX, invited by SA Current Magazine

Sound Art Space, Laredo TX

Synthetic Zero, New York NY

2006

Artists' Hometown Rodeo, San Antonio TX

Salon Mijangos, San Antonio TX

1906, San Antonio TX

Beat

Research, Cambridge MA*

2005

Medusa Lounge, San Antonio TX*

21 Grand, Oakland CA*

Gallery 555, Detroit MI

Wizard Lounge, Hickory NC

University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, Knoxville TN

Detroit Electronic Music Festival, Detroit MI*

Buddy, Chicago IL

Darling Hall, Milwaukee WI

City Club Cinema, Minneapolis MN

OneTen Gallery, Madison WI

Roeper Academy, Birmingham MI

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI

Duderstat Center, University of Michigan

Metrospace, East Lansing MI

2004 Chicago Underground Film Festival, IL*

Metrospace, East Lansing, MI

Soap Factory, Minneapolis MN

Gallery 555, Ypsilanti MI

Detroit Art Space, Detroit MI

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI

Dreamland, Ypsilanti MI

2003 FLOW, Foran's, Detroit MI*

Peter Sparling Dance Gallery, Ann Arbor MI*

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI*

Immedia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Exhibitions

(PBL) indicates collaboration with Jason Jay Stevens

2009

The Lab at the Roger Smith Hotel, NYC (PBL) (Dec 11, 2009 - Jan 2, 2010)

"Waterflow " curated by David Rubin, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio TX (group)

"Meditations on Place" curated by David Freeman, South Texas College, McAllen TX ( group)

2008 Gallery 100, San Antonio TX (PBL solo)

Gallery 4, Blue Star, San Antonio TX (solo)

Blue Star 23, curated by David Rubin, San Antonio TX (PBL)

Birmingham Art Center, MI (contribution to Marie Woo retrospective)

San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio TX (PBL with Stuart Allen)

Sheldon Memorial Gallery, Lincoln, NE (PBL invited)

2007 Cactus Bra, San Antonio TX (solo)

Projections on Lake, Los Angeles CA (juried group)

Kiehle Gallery, University of St. Cloud MN (PBL solo)

The Lab at the Roger Smith Hotel, New York NY (PBL solo)

Three Walls, San Antonio TX (PBL solo)

2006

Railroad Cinema, 1906 Complex, San Antonio TX (solo)

Library Cinema, San Antonio Central Library, San Antonio TX (solo)

Digital Orilla '06, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santa Fe Argentina (PBL juried)

Salon Mijangos, San Antonio TX (solo)

2005

Matrix Gallery, Ann Arbor MI (PBL solo)

2004

Metrospace, East Lansing, MI (group)

Studio Soto, Boston MA (group)

Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor MI (group)

2003

Cardiff Festival, Cardiff Wales (juried, group)

Remote Lounge, NYC (juried, group)

2002 SmartShop, Kalamazoo MI (curated, group)

Dreamland, Ypsilanti MI (solo)

Sweetwaters Cafe, Ann Arbor MI (solo)

2001

ArtSeen9, ArtCite, Windsor ONT Canada (PBL group)

Art Farm, Marquette NE (PBL group, invited)

pARTS Gallery, Minneapolis MN (PBL group)

Center for Theoretical Physics, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI (PBL group)

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI (PBL)

Matrix Gallery, Ann Arbor MI (solo)

Media City Festival, Windsor ONT Canada (PBL)

2000

ArtSeen8, ArtCite, Windsor ONT Canada (group) (PBL)

Soap Factory, Minneapolis MN (PBL group)

Matrix Gallery, Ann Arbor MI (solo)

Videopolis, Art Pro Tem, Ann Arbor MI (PBL juried, group)

ArtCite, Windsor ONT Canada (PBL solo)

Special Projects Organized

2009

"@," New Media Caucus exhibition, Southern CA Institute of Architecture, LA CA

DIY & the Avant-Garde: Artists creating alternative exhibition venues for cutting-edge art, panel discussion, University of Texas at San Antonio, TX

All Ladies Video Review, Satellite Space, San Antonio TX video exhibition curated in collaboration with Cornelia White Swann

2007

Exquisite Corpse Exhibit, Gallery 118, San Antonio TX

Numinous Inscriptions: Video Art From San Antonio, TX, curated for Loop, Barcelona

Video Art Selections from the New Media Studio Program UTSA Art & Art History Department, curated for Loop, Barcelona

2006

Green Eggs and CAM Awards Ceremony, Cameo Theater, San Antonio, TX

Green Eggs and CAM Video Lounge, Cameo Theater, San Antonio, TX

2005

A/V Showdown at Sync'05, Duderstat Center, Ann Arbor MI

A/V Battle at the Unreal Tournament, Metrospace, East Lansing MI

2004

SuperCinematics, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI

SuperSonicScreen, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI

Digital Canvas, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor MI

Suprercinematics@WORK, Work Gallery, Ann Arbor MI

2003

Digital New School, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI

2002

Medicine for Today: Lux Mundi, 40th Ann Arbor Film Festival

1999

Kali+Central, University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor MI

1998

Collectania, University of Michigan, Media Union Gallery, Ann Arbor MI

Immedia University of Michigan, Media Union, Ann Arbor MI

1997

Combustion Zone

Matrix Gallery, Ann Arbor MI

Riverside Arts Center, Ypsilanti MI

BluHous Workspace, Hattiesburg MS

Mississippi River, St. Paul MN

Grants, Fellowships, Awards, and Residencies

2009

Artpace Travel Award, San Antonio TX

Honorable Mention, Experimental Film, Fargo Film Festival, SD

2008

Meet the Composers MetLife Grant, NYC

"Woman of Influence," San Antonio Business Journal

2007

Hotel Pupik Residency, Austria

"Feature Artist" at Chalk-it-up, Artpace, San Antonio TX

"Best Fresh Face in the Arts," San Antonio Current Magazine, TX

UT San Antonio Office of Sponsored Programs - seed money funds

2006

First Place, Video Installation category, Digital Orilla '06

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santa Fe Argentina

2005

UT San Antonio College of Liberal and Fine Arts Faculty Research Award

First Place, "Unreal Tournament" live cinema competition, Downtown Gallery,

University of Knoxville, TN

2004

First Place, Edible Rex Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI

Michigan Council for the Arts Mini-Grant

2002

University of Michigan School of Art & Design Dean's Discretionary Award

2001

Art Farm Residency, Marquette NE

2000

Detroit Filmmakers Coalition Best Local Filmmaker Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival

1999

University of Michigan School of Art & Design Dean's Discretionary Award

University of Michigan Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies Travel Grant

BluHouse Workspace Residency, Hattiesburg, MS

1998

U of M Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies Dean's Discretionary Award

Redstone Award, U of Michigan Faculty Selection to most promising MFA candidate

1997

University of Michigan Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies Merit Fellowship

Best of Festival, Anti-Film Festival, Miami FL

Best Michigan Filmmaker, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI

1995

Film in the Cities, Women Filmmakers Access Grant, St. Paul MN

Artist Talks & Presentations

2009

South Texas College, McAllen TX

2008

Live Cinema Workshop, Palo Alto College, San Antonio TX

Panelist - San Antonio Film Commission Experimental Film, San Antonio TX

Panelist - "Live Cinema," Antimatter International Film Festival, Victoria BC

"Two to Watch," Artpace, San Antonio TX

"Conversations: Appropriation in 20th Century Western Art,"

Allied Media Conference, Detroit MI

"Large-Scale Site-Specific Video Projection,"

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln NE

"Artists Looking at Art," The McNay, San Antonio TX

2007

"Lunch Talks," University of Texas at San Antonio TX

MFA Seminar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

panelist - European Film Festival, San Antonio TX

Metåfora International School, Barcelona Spain

2006

"Expanded Cinema for the Digital Age," video screening, with Antony Flackett

College Art Association Conference, Boston MA

2005

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA

University of California, Berkeley CA

"Potter-Belmar Labs: AV Performance Secrets"

Allied Media Conference, Bowling Green OH

The Roeper School, Birmingham MI

2004

College for Creative Studies, Detroit MI

2003

Panelist - 6th Annual Enriching Scholarship Conference, University of Michigan

"Multimedia Citizenship: Community, Democracy, and Digital Media"

panelist - 41st Ann Arbor Film Festival with David Gatten & Jon Jost

2002

Ann Arbor Public Library, Art Pro Tem, Ann Arbor MI

Ladyfest Bay Area, San Francisco CA

panelist - 40th Ann Arbor Film Festival with Alyson LaTendress, George Manupelli,

& Mark Wojahn

2000

Ann Arbor Public Library, Art Pro Tem, Ann Arbor MI

1999

Milwaukee College of Art & Design, Milwaukee WI

Duderstat Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

1996

Midwest Media Artists' Access Center

Women Filmmakers Grant Recipient Screening, Minneapolis MN

1995

Hebei Teacher's University, Shijiazhuang China

Professional Service

2008 - Present

Contemporary Art Month, interim board member, San Antonio TX

2008 - Present

New Media Caucus Vice President

2007-9

UTSA Photography Position Search Committee

2007-9

Artist Foundation of San Antonio, Board Member

2007

New Media Caucus Exhibition Committee - Chair

2007-8

UTSA Chair Position Search Committee

2007-8

UTSA University Art Commission

2006- Present

UTSA Computer Working Group Committee - Chair

2006-Present

UTSA Visiting Artist Committee

2006-7

UTSA Curriculum Committee

2006-7

UTSA Guest Speaker Series - Chair

2006

Artist Foundation of San Antonio, Media Arts Judge

2006

UTSA Student Learning Assessment Outcome Committee - chair

2005-8

UTSA Graduate Art Students advisor

2005-6

UTSA Art History Position Search Committee

2004

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Special Projects Director

2003

University of Michigan School of Art & Design, Digital Studio Course Coordinator

2000

Ann Arbor Film Festival Screening Committee

1999
University of Michigan School of Art & Design, Dean Search Committee

Publications

"Prodigal Son:  Potter-Belmar Labs Interviews Franco Mindini-Ruiz" emvergeoning.com,

San Antonio TX, May 2009 (to-be-published)

"Easy Rider:  Potter-Belmar Labs Interviews Matthew Drutt" emvergeoning.com,

San Antonio TX, April 2009

"Media Archeology Festival, Aurora Picture Show" ...might be good, April 2009, Austin TX

"Report: NMC at the Dallas Contemporary," Media-N, online journal of the New Media

Caucus, November 2008

"Leslie Raymond: LANDSCAPES" brochure, Blue Star Contemporary Arts,

San Antonio TX, Fall 2008

"A Clay Odyssey" Marie Woo exhibition catalog, Birmingham Art Association, Summer 2008

"Mediums" Art Lies, Spring 2008

"Kino Club" San Antonio Current online video biweekly column, April - July 2007

"Amelita Destruction" Journal of Short Film (DVD), Columbus OH, 2005

"Improvisation #4" Journal of Motion and Sound (DVD), Detroit MI, 2005

Digital Canvas catalog, Ann Arbor MI, 2004

Lux Mundi Report, Ann Arbor MI 2002

"Digital New School," Ann Arbor Film Festival Newsletter, February 2002

"Rife w/ Fire," Independent Exposure Sizzling Summer Edition 2001(DVD),

Blackchair Collection, San Francisco CA

"Rife w/ Fire," Independent Exposure Best of 1998 volume 1 (DVD),

Blackchair Collection, San Francisco CA

The Poly Serial Research Quarterly, St Paul MN, 1997

"Her Story Project," North Shore Woman's Newspaper, Huntington NY,

vol 8 No. 9, January 1993

"Her Story," Artpaper, St. Paul MN, October 1992

"Her Story: Remembering Our Roots," Womyn's Press, Eugene OR, vol 22 #6,

November 1992, p. 8-9

Regional Report, Lightstruck, Chicago IL, Autumn/Winter 1992

"Ann Arbor Film Festival Celebrates 30 Years," Metro Times, Detroit MI, March 1992

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