Leonard has earned additional fellowships, awards, and residencies, including those from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the United States Art in Embassies Program, and the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Her solo exhibitions span the United States, from the Hood Museum of Art in New Hampshire to the Benton Museum of Art at 色中色 in California, and her artwork is in the permanent collections of several museums and galleries. An artist and filmmaker, she earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design and is an assistant professor of art at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn.