Ashley Hollan is an intermedia storyteller, entertainment 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 Principal at entertainment and recreation law firm, Make/Believe Law LLC.
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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 2021 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, at Elon University in Elon, NC, at the Wilma W. Daniels gallery in Wilmington, NC and online with The Alternative Art School.
Her recent residencies, collaborations and independent studies include writing and visual art residencies at Caldera Arts Center in OR, a sound art residency at Campbient in WA, a metalsmithing residency at Ignite in Asheville, NC, participation in a collective build at Love Burn in FL and collaboration with The Alternative Art School. She was also a Finalist for the role of Poet Laureate of the Town of Chapel Hill, NC.
