North Light Works was created by Meredith Leich, an artist and arts worker with 15+ years working on others’ projects.

Meredith’s films have screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Athens International Film + Video Festival, and Chicagoland Shorts, among others, and she has shown her work at venues nationally and abroad. Her collaboration with glaciologist Andrew Malone was awarded a 2015-16 Arts, Science & Culture Initiative Grant from the University of Chicago and received a 2018 Individual Artist Grant from Chicago’s DCASE. She has completed residencies at the Tide Institute and Museum of Art, Nes Artist Residency, Studios of Key West, the Ragdale Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Wrangell Mountain Center, among others. Meredith received her BA from Swarthmore College and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she also lectured in the Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department for five years. She is currently the Co-Director of the Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency.

Read more about her art practice at meredithleich.com and see her watercolors at meredithwatercolors.com.