Leah Tumerman: Being Drugged, Never Quitting, and Her Call to Arms

Leah Tumerman makes paintings on canvas, murals on walls, and drawings on paper. Her work explores what it means to be a woman through the lens of sisterhood and community, identity and belonging. And sometimes, loneliness.

In this conversation, some things we talk about are:

• The struggle between fitting in and standing out


• The decision to never quit


• The loneliest period of her adult life


• Healing from an incredibly intense trauma and


• Her call to arms as a woman and an artist