Izzie Ashley (she/her)

b. 1998, Philadelphia

EDUCATION

2018-2021 BFA in Craft and Material Studies, Fiber and Textiles Concentration, The University of The Arts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2022-2025 Operations Manager, Weaver House

2022- Shop Associate / Repair Specialist, Wayward Collection

2022- Repair Specialist, Stickball

2021-2023 Fiber and Textiles Shop Supervisor, The University of The Arts

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2025 Another Tiny Chair Show, Stickball, Philadelphia, PA

2025 HANG IN THERE, Space1026, Philadelphia, PA

2024-2025 Bite Size: Small Works Straight from the Studio, Gravers Lane Gallery, Chestnut Hill, PA

2024 Weaver House Community Show, Philadelphia, PA

2023 International Fiber Arts Festival, Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, South Korea

2022 Uarts School of Art Senior Thesis, IceBox Projects at Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2021 Future Tense, Surface Design Association, Marshall University, Huntington, WV

TEACHING

2024-2025 Walk in and Weave Instructor, Weaver House

2024 Introduction to Mending and Repair Instructor, Weaver House

2024 Craft Circle: mending, Weaver House

2021 Teaching Assistant, Color and Loom Weaving Class, The University of The Arts

2021 CraftNow Create Fibers Workshop

2019-2020 Teaching Assistant - Saturday School Fashion + Fibers, The University of The Arts

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2023 Work Study Full Scholarship, Penland Spring Concentration in Textiles

2022 Molly Upton Scholarship in Quilting and Related Fiber Arts, Haystack Mountain School of Craft

2021 Nominee for Florence Whistler Fish Award for Student Excellence

2021 Rosalie Borowsky Belkin Award in Fibers

2021 Nominee for Windgate-Lemar Fellowship Award

2020 Nominee for Yale Norfolk Summer Residency, The University of The Arts School of Art

2020 Winner of William Daley Fellowship for Study at Haystack Mountain School of Craft