Ashley Eliza Williams - The Hope of Imagining

Artist & Place

Episode 29! This week we are interviewing the Western-Mass based artist, Ashley Eliza Williams. Ashley is an incredible artist born in the Blue Ridge Mountains in SW Virginia, and making work about interspecies communication and non-human language. Ashley has exhibited widely including at Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (CO), Hersbruck Museum (Germany), The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder (CO), Bronx Museum Project Space (NY), The New York Hall of Science (NY), and Wasserman Projects in Detroit (MI). Ashley’s work has been featured in many publications including New American Paintings, Hyperallergic, and The Washington Post. Recent residencies include: Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Vermont Studio Center, Shoals Marine Laboratory, The Studios at Mass MoCA, and Shangyuan Art Museum, China. In 2023 Ashley was a Lucille Walton Fellow and resident artist at the University of Virginia Mountain Lake Biological Station. This is a great conversation filled with bird song out the window as we talk about communication attempts, creating imaginary worlds, shifts in perspective scales, the impoverishment of imagination from the ongoing extinction of beings, night walks and so much more. Please give Ashley a follow on instagram. Go check out her website and stay tuned for their next upcoming shows and projects.

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