Leonard Lehrer, 83, passed away May 8, 2018. He was a renowned international artist, founding trustee and current honorary member of the International Print Center New York, Emeritus Board Member apexart New York City, Emeritus Professor of Art New York University. Leonard had forty-eight solo exhibitions in his lifetime and was included in multiple group exhibitions. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery, Corcoran Gallery, Library of Congress, Gangsneung Art Cultural Center, Korea, Bibliothque Nationale de France, Sprengel Museum of Art, Germany and some one hundred other public collections across the US and the world. Lehrer attended Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts) and the University of Pennsylvania. He taught at the Philadelphia College of Art and served as Department Chair for the University of New Mexico and the University of Texas at San Antonio. At ASU he was Chair of the Art Department, Founding Director of the School of Art, Director of the Print Research Facility and Director of the Visual Arts Research Institute. During the 1990s, he served as Chair of the Department of Art & Art Professions at New York University. At Columbia College Chicago he became Dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts in 2001. His last position in academia was at the University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts as its Director of the Printmaking Convergence program. In addition, Leonard was Chair of the Arts Advisory Committee to the College Board for ten years; he received the Southern Graphics Council International Lifetime Achievement Award, and was appointed Co-chair of the Arts Task Force of the Fulbright Alumni Association. In 2006, he was selected to give the keynote address at the Fulbright Association's International Alumni Conference in Marrakesh, Morocco. In 2001 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant in Athens, Greece and a Fulbright Senior Scholar AIA grant in 2005. He was a member of the International Core Committee that developed a post-graduate international art school for presentation at EXPO 2000, the world's fair in Hannover, Germany. He was Visiting Professor at the International Centre for Culture and Management (ICCM), "Culture of Doubt" Conference, Salzburg, Austria, in 2005, and Visiting Professor at the International Summer Graduate Seminar, Los Andes University, Bogota, Colombia. Leonard was preceded in death by a daughter and grandson. He is survived by his wife Marilyn, three children and four grandchildren. A celebration of his life will be held on June 2, 2018 at 3 p.m. at Thurman's Mansion, 17900 Farm to Market Road 1826, Driftwood, Texas 78619. Donations may be made to Hospice Austin, 4107 Spicewood Springs Rd., Austin, Texas 78759. (Source: ASU Foundation)