Sara Bouchard is a visual artist and musician. She was born in 1982 in California and received her bachelor’s degree in art at Yale University in 2003, where she met Leslie Kuo. She lives and works in New York and performs as a singer/songwriter throughout the city. Her current work includes narrative artist’s books with collaged images and text and a song cycle based on the journals of American explorers Lewis and Clark. Listen to Songs of Lewis & Clark on MySpace.
Leslie Kuo is an artist and graphic designer. She was born in 1981 in California and received her bachelor’s degree in plant biology at Yale University in 2003, where she also studied art and met Sara Bouchard. After graduation, she decided to work as an artist but continued to be interested in plants. She lives and works in Berlin and New Haven, CT.
Leslie’s artwork can be seen on her website, www.lesliekuo.net, including portraits of plants in greenhouses. She has also created graphic design for such leafy green endeavors as Marsh Botanical Garden, the Yale Sustainable Food Project, Young Friends of the Earth Germany, and Balkon & Garten magazine.