Meet Ashley
Ashley Molese (she/her; b. 1983, Freeport, NY) is an independent curator and cultural producer. She is the inaugural Curator-in-Residence at Historical Congressional Cemetery, and will create artist commissions and programming during her year-long residency. She specializes in site-specific commissions, collaborating with artists to conceive and produce large-scale installations in traditional spaces and outdoor environments. Her work focuses on the intersections of art, science and technology, and incorporates universal design principles into public engagement. Her past curatorial projects include FUTURES at the Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building, Light City, Artscape, the Baltimore Book Festival, School 33 Arts Center, the Overload Poetry Festival and Arts Access Victoria. She provides public art consulting for galleries and festivals, non-profit and corporate partners, and arts and entertainment districts.
Ashley received a Master of Fine Arts in Curatorial Practice at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014 and completed her Masters of Arts in Arts Management from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia in 2010. She is based in Washington D.C.
