Courtney M. Leonard Art

05/24/2026

Courtney M. Leonard
BREACH:
LOGBOOK 26
CONVERGENCE
Convergence kan’varj(a)ns (noun):
the process or state of converging: the convergence of lines in the distance.
convergence zone: a location where airflows or ocean currents meet.

Tábūtní for a beautiful opening night in a place filled with history, memory, and love - I truly appreciate the invitation to have worked with you all through this winter and spring and to explore how our island has been shaped from hills to ports… where lighthouses share the green lit skies of the aurora seasons… and where we are blessed by the waters that sustain us… BREACH: Logbook 26 | CONVERGENCE - Opens this weekend to the public 🌊 Please visit if you are able as the exhibition will run through November 1st and also consider donating to your local non profit museums and centers as it takes a village where ever we are and this crew was so awesome to work with 🙌🏽 🌊💗 Can’t wait to see you all again for our future programming - And Tábūtní to Erin, Jacob, Paul and Clisby for the shared journey 🙌🏽

04/24/2026

Growing new wings…

04/21/2026

NOTICE: There’s this space that one may reach in life where it’s neither beginning nor end… for some reason reaching a dead end… encroached by rising waters… in a different part of town… through high tides… seemed to put my mind at ease regarding both ration-al and relation-all… understanding… that whether …no man is an island… or not… an island sure will teach you… its limits… its understanding… its knowing… and its acceptance… but it is up to you if you are ready… and for a long time i thought I was… and yet… if I could give haste to the new ones… or to the old me… I’d tell them to be careful… to take care of yourself… because when you create work that is so personal and so close to your lived and actively living experience… the audience expects more performance and less reality… much like a theater… consider setting the stage… as a third person… an other… give… some distance…some care… some understanding… protect yourself from drowning for an audience that came for a show… know… that… the ship is just a mere prop on a stage… and know that as the curtains close… you can take a bow… grab a drink… share some stories… and go home… to rest…to sleep… on a docked bed… in a home that isn’t engulfed by the current/currents… “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”

04/09/2026

PAY ARTISTS for their labor.
PAY ARTISTS for the use of their work.
PAY ARTISTS 💯

03/29/2026

Watching as the tide goes out… watching as the ospreys return… to nest… to rest… to dive… to sustain… wishing for a shoreline… that didn’t slowly fall through time… winter… to winter… spring to spring… storm… to storm… treading lightly over mussels… bound with reed and solitude… this bundle of abundance… simply trying its best to support so much… to you I give thanks… for carrying time… for trying to hold up what land we have left… as we consume you…

03/20/2026

“Please place your eyes at”… Ronald K. Leonard SMSgt (Retired)… born in Chicago, Illinois on April 18,1945… his birth name was Charles Murphy… when he was a senior in high school, and before graduation, he enlisted in the United States Air Force… Ronald Keith Leonard… my father… passed away on October 19, 2025 at the age of 80 years old… and was laid to rest today… on March 19th 2026… with over 430,000 who have served in every major American conflict from the Revolutionary War to modern operations who are also laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery… I will forever give thanks to our service members and their families… Rest In Peace Dad

03/08/2026

On this International Women’s Day I wish to celebrate so many amazing women in my life… Including my sister Dr. Kelsey Leonard and her colleagues who worked to bring “Women of Wampum” together over the past few years to celebrate and honor wampum and our connection and love for wampum as Indigenous women from our respective nations and communities… Tábūtní to Mashpee and Aquinnah for hosting us with such love and heart… 🙌🏽💗 To my fellow women of wampum Tábūtní for all that you carry and create and return with love… the gathering culminated in a short documentary that is now beginning to travel to a film festival near you… so please remember and continue to support the amazing women around you 🙌🏽💗🌊

02/20/2026

"A Reciprocity Of Care..."

BREACH: LOGBOOK 24 | STACCATO by Courtney M. Leonard A documentary film by filmmaker Kate Geis 2024This film follows the artist Courtney M. Leonard a...

02/19/2026

Grateful for family… grateful for friends… grateful for time.. grateful for our daughter… grateful for going with the flow… grateful for trials and tribulations… grateful that when I first carried her in my womb on the Rez… that I have the memory that so many swans kept visiting and gathering close by… so grateful for and the life journey we’ve created together… grateful to watch our daughter experience each moment… grateful for joy… so grateful and honored to be her mother 💗🌊

01/07/2026

New Beginnings… New Collaborations… grateful for the support of family … of community… and of our heart of the moon 💗

01/03/2026

Tábūtní - It was awesome to walk into a NYC museum and have our tribal IDs recognized 🙌🏽💯 ❤️