Ashley Hollan is an intermedia storyteller, entertainment and recreation lawyer and theorist.

 

Ashley’s audiovisual spellwork illuminates hidden histories and interrogates legal quandaries. Through supernatural interventions and environmental explorations, considering court cases and current events, Ashley’s multidisciplinary practice conjures questions and delivers artistic arguments to inspire awareness and tell interesting tales.

 

Ashley earned her BA in Public Policy and Visual Art/Art History at Duke University, attended law school at the University of Denver, completed part of a Music Business MBA with SNHU/Berklee College of Music and graduated from Pacific Northwest College of Art with her MFA in Visual Studies and MA in Critical Studies. She has served as a Visiting Professor of Arts Administration and Art at Elon University and is the Founder of entertainment and recreation law firm, Make/Believe Law LLC with offices in Nashville, TN and Savannah, GA. 

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Ashley has been a part of legal and production teams crafting groundbreaking movies, music, virtual reality, advertising and visual art content. Her art has been exhibited throughout the United States and online, including recently as juried selections for the UVA Artworks Northwest Biennial in Roseburg, OR, the juried FL3TCH3R Socially and Politically Engaged Art Exhibit at the Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN (featured in Hyperallergic), exhibitions at Alberta Abbey, Pacific Northwest College of Art and Portland State University in Portland, OR, Elon University in Elon, NC, at the Wilma W. Daniels gallery in Wilmington, NC. She has also had the opportunity to present her work in multiple exhibitions via The Alternative Art School.

 

Her recent residencies, collaborations and independent studies include writing and visual art residencies at Caldera Arts Center in Caldera, OR, a sound art residency at Campbient in coastal WA, a metalsmithing residency at Ignite Jewelry Studios in Asheville, NC, participation in a collective build at Love Burn in Virginia Key, FL and collaboration with The Alternative Art School. She was a Finalist for the role of Poet Laureate of the Town of Chapel Hill, NC and is currently a Member of the Metal Arts Guild of Georgia.