Born in Ames, Iowa, Leslie Hall grew up near the first water tower west of the Mississippi. She truly grazed the fields looking for a home to shelter her truth. "Art is breathing in a valley; I seek it’s pain. All my work is speaking a new language. Death to the seargent."rnAfter graduating from Ames High School she went on to four years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and also attended the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2004 to pursue large format painting and historic preservation.