TROPOS 

Lesia leads urban design, restoration, and environmental art processes to develop projects that address issues of climate adaptation. Her work focuses on water, rethinking human relationships with atmospheric cycles and their relation to sensory experience, environmental infrastructure and the degradation of urban forests. She brings a wealth of knowledge from fifteen years of experience as a public artist to each landscape architectural project she undertakes.

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Lesia is an Instructor at the University of Waterloo in Cambridge, where she teaches landscape architecture courses in the architecture department. She works extensively with local municipalities to develop educational content that advances public knowledge, and is the recipient of several awards including two grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and an Education in Heritage award from the Hamilton Natural Heritage Committee. She lectures widely and is recognized for her contributions to the conservation, restoration and preservation of Hamilton's natural heritage. 

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Lesia worked with leading landscape architects in Seattle, Zürich, and Vancouver before returning to Hamilton to establish Tropos. She has been an Artist in Residence at Halls Island, Haliburton, ON; the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB; and Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.

Lesia earned a Master of Landscape Architecture and a Master of Art from the Design School at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. She has a combined Bachelor of Fine Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences, where she studied painting, sculpture, comparative literature and graduated with honors.

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