Becca Leffell Koren

Becca Leffell Koren is a multidisciplinary designer and educator working with clients and collaborators in the fields of art, culture, architecture, and education. Previously she worked for the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the RISD Museum (Providence, Rhode Island), and This Is Our Work (New York).

Her client work and research practice are typography driven with a focus on publication and exhibition design. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in communication design from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

Personal Website

AxiOme: Invisible, 2023

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Humans of St. Louis , 2022

Whereas Hoops, 2022

Orange and silver book photographed on a deep ultramarine background. The cover features an abstract, curved pattern with the letters "MFA" embossed in the center. Smaller text, in white, reads "Master of Fine Arts" — "Visual Arts" — "Washington University in St. Louis".

MFA in Visual Arts Viewbook, 2019

Views of the covers of a book with two interior spreads: the images are printed in ultramarine/a dark blue, with both Hebrew and English text set in black. The front cover, in English, reads "Unresolved (Issues)".

Unresolved (Issues), 2018

The corner of a gallery space with light gray/cream walls, with the words "Drawing Conclusions" connected across the corner with a wavy line. To the left is a framed artwork; to the right, some wall text.

Drawing Conclusions, 2016

(Cyan) blue and white poster, which contains information about a Keller Easterling lecture: the title set in a bold, tall font with smaller text below. The background consists of an abstract composition of a shape with shadow radiating from the corners in two color ways, inverse images of each other.

Keller Easterling Poster, 2015

Three pastel-toned booklets laid out on a white background (from left to right, in gray, lavender/blue, and orange/coral/red). The covers include artists' names with titles below, in both Hebrew and English, a geometric pattern in the center, and supplementary information at the bottom in a row.

Wall Work Series, 2013

RENEWED , 2011

Select Exhibitions and Presentations

“The Art of Art Books,” presented at Center for Art in Wood, 2022.
Sam Fox School Of Design & Visual Arts Faculty Show, Des Lee Gallery 2022.
“Live Edges,” Projection Map, Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, T-REX Building, St, Louis, 2018.

News

A moss green book with red spiral binding titled Whereas Hoops lies on a bed of green grass.

John Early, Becca Leffell Koren, and Noah Cohan examine the issue in their new artist’s book, Whereas Hoops.