{"title":"Elizabeth Ashe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"max-height: 300px; max-width:55%\" src=\"https:\/\/helloart-prod-bucket.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/artist\/elizabeth-ashe\/elizabeth-ashe-profile.jpg\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Ashe is a multidisciplinary artist. She earned her MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at MICA, and her MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University. She has been awarded multiple grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) as well as other granting bodies, to support her studio practice and curatorial projects. Ashe has been interviewed on NPR's the Kojo Nnamdi Show, ABC News, and her work highlighted several times in the Washington Post. Her poetry has most recently appeared in The Skinny Poetry Journal, and is upcoming in Liminal Spaces. She serves on the Board of Washington Sculptors Group, and on the Board for Tenleytown MS. Ashe lives in Washington, DC, and works as the Exhibit and Events Technician for the Katzen Arts Center at American University, and as a teacher at US Arts Center. She is the founding Co-Director of Ashe \u0026amp; Norton, a display space gallery in Glover Park, DC. Her studios are at Otis Street Arts Project and Landsculpture Studio.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eARTIST’S STATEMENT\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy artwork is rooted in domesticity and travel, wherein home is holy and sanctioned, habitual, private and wary. Even threat is something beautiful. I am keyed into the expanse and claustrophobia of sharing domestic space with landscapes. As a Californian, I was taught to be careful of earthquakes as soon as I could crawl. I was taught to never start a fire outside alone, because wind could sweep embers up the coast and burn a whole mountain. I witnessed that my dad's temper was scarier than any earthquake and learned how to pack-house in an afternoon. I learned to forget about my little brother and protect my mother. The drawn-to and repelled-from-danger and safety dynamic holds sway in my work. Line quality is crucial, be it ink, welds or sutures. I appreciate the closeness and intimacy of using unexpected materials that otherwise, look dangerous or forgettable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/helloart.com\/collections\/elizabeth-ashe.oembed","provider":"helloart","version":"1.0","type":"link"}