Nancy Lee Solbrig is the mastermind and creator of Lee Bots. These bots have grown from her love of getting her hands dirty, tearing things apart, and turning old, overlooked, and lifeless objects into something new. Giving these once useful but now out of date or broken objects a new soul, attitude, and life has become her passion. Nancy was usually the child getting in trouble for tearing her toys apart to see what was inside making the toy work. This has since become a valuable skill in finding the best bot parts.
What started from her home in Rock Island, Illinois, with her first out of date computer and her grandma Leona’s old mailbox, has blossomed into over one thousand bots finding new homes all over the world. Nancy has not only brought the bots to life in sculpture but has immortalized them through her love of photography and graphic design. Always on the lookout for a new challenge, she is now taking the bots into the world of clothing, jewelry, and housewares.
Nancy studied design and painting at: Black Hawk College in Moline, Illinois; painting at Canterbury Christ Church University in Canterbury, England; graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts Katowice in Katowice, Poland; and graphic design at the University of Arts Poznan in Poznan, Poland. She graduated with her visual commutation degree at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.