Ashley is a ceramic artist and painter currently residing in Phoenix, AZ working as an artist and educator. Her career in ceramics began in 2006 at St. Petersburg College, Clearwater, Florida. In 2013, she earned her BFA in Ceramics at Arizona State University, Tempe where she was awarded the Windgate Scholarship. Since then, Ashley has worked with arts organizations and professional ceramic artists including the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts and Don Reitz, to name a few. As an artist, Ashley’s most recent successes include In My Space: Functional Craft for the Home, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, and Perception, CLAY Festival hosted by Light Art Space and Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NM.
Ash is currently a Beginning Wheel Throqing instructor at Pip Coffee & Clay and will begin teaching Beginning Wheel Throwing at Thunderbird Arts Center in January 2026. Ash specializes in various techniques, including wheel throwing, to accomplish her stylized aesthetic; creating works that are symbolic references of awareness of the individual – “I am inspired by the complex connections of personal, interpersonal and transpersonal elements and how they influence our sense of being.”