An Artist’s Reflection on a Life Deeply Committed to Art Education By Marianne Rice Nelson and Leona Shanks, co-founders of Studio Incamminati Artist Leona Shanks, alongside her late husband Nelson Shanks, co-founded the Philadelphia based school for contemporary realist art, Studio Incamminati. For over two decades Leona has given her life to the endeavor and she continues an ongoing role in the school’s leadership today. Gordon Wetmore, a founding member of the Portrait