b. 1998
Ashley Page is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Portland, ME. Originally hailing from Minneapolis, MN, Page considers her studio practice and curatorial projects to be a vessel for representation, intergenerational exchange, and creative expression. Having obtained her BFA in Sculpture and a minor in Public Engagement from Maine College of Art & Design, her artistic framework is a vehicle for storytelling. In 2022, she was awarded the Amelia Peabody Award for Sculpture by St. Botolph Club Foundation, and has taught workshops at Waterfall Arts, Peters Valley, the University of Maine Orono and more. Her curatorial and studio practice has been seen in the Portland Museum of Art, Hunterdon Art Museum, Congress Square Park, the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, The Abyssinian Meeting House, Cove Street Arts, and others. Page is presently the Studio and Programs Manager at Indigo Arts Alliance, where she works within the intersection of art and activism.
“I consider my creative practice to be a vessel for representation and visibility. I use textile/fiber techniques such as netting, weaving, twining, coiling and crochet to create mixed media sculptural basketry forms. These vessel forms are often a metaphor for the body, a vessel for a spirit, or act as a container for ephemera. With these vessels, I consider the universal cultural context of a basket and their functional place in human history, while using them as the vehicle for memory, portraiture, and storytelling.”
Q. If you could offer your younger self any advice at the start of your artistic career, what would it be?”
A. “Trust yourself and listen to your instincts. You already know what to do.”