Leah Foushee Waller has worked for over 15 years as a professional sculptor and art educator. She received her Bachelor in Fine Arts from East Carolina University in 2002, and studied under Master figurative sculptor Martine Vaugel in the Loire Valley of France. In addition to participating in numerous gallery exhibitions, she has created over a dozen public art projects throughout North Carolina, most notably 'Major', Durham’s iconic bronze bull pasturing in the Center City Plaza. Leah currently teaches art at Durham's progressive project-based and arts-integrated charter school Central Park School for Children. She lives in Hillsborough, NC with her husband and two children.

“Using the cast metals of aluminum, iron, and bronze, my work embraces realism as metaphor. The "Vintage Button Series" is a metaphorical exploration of a mother's journeying efforts of 'keeping it all together'. Sifting and gleaning pieces from various generations of button collections, and hand sculpting and casting them larger than life echoes the process of everything discovered, pondered, and endured on the journey of motherhood. Each button, seemingly a portrait, honors the mothers before us, and the stories and memories that shaped their lives.”