Leah Jay has been an artist and illustrator in San Jose for 25 years. An artistic polymath and avid experimenter, she creates using a variety of media including watercolor, acrylic, pastel, ink, fiber, and mixed media collage. Her work has been featured in various publications, and highlights from her career include directing 2001’s WTC Memorial Art Project to facilitate artist’s responses to 9/11, sharing her piece “Yesterday’s California” as the cover of the Silicon Valley Metro, and successfully crowdfunding her artbook “Amphibian Love” to benefit Save the Frogs.