Mary Ellen Leger was born in 1948 in Rayne, Louisiana and currently resides in Lafayette.  Completing the BFA degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1999, she also studied and traveled in England, France, Italy, and the Netherlands.  She is represented by Goldesberry Gallery in Houston.  Since 2001 she has had eight one-person exhibitions. She has participated in numerous group shows including the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Contemporary Art Center, and Delgado Community College all in New Orleans, the Louisiana State University School of Design in Baton Rouge, and the Acadiana Center for the Arts in  Lafayette. 

In  2001  her   work  received national recognition in New American Painting through the Open Studios Press in Boston, Massachusetts and in the same year she was recognized as a fellow of the Louisiana Division of the Arts.

Leger works in a wide variety of mediums exploring both two and three dimensional form.  Her most recent work, The Braille Series, questions how the individual communicates and receives information.  As a metaphor for sensory perception, this recent work explores a dialogue between that which is seen, felt, and or heard. The work addresses accessibility in how we respond to and participate with language.