Alison Croney Moses: A Studio Visit

Artist Statement
Artisan’s Asylum is such a great community resource of space, tools and knowledge. However it seems to be an underutilized resource by many artists. Being invited as the visiting artist in residence was an opportunity for me to join the community and get to know this resource more closely. I was instantly excited to gain a new skill while also making use of these wonderful facilities that are so close to my Allston studio. 
During this residency I gave myself permission to let exploration and learning lead me rather than the culminating gallery show. In doing so, I am embracing Artisan’s mission and ethos. 
Now as I’m finalizing the gallery show, I have to face the uncomfortable but potentially exciting tension of pulling back the veil to the process. Often when I invite viewers into a gallery, I am sharing final artworks after they have been sketched, reworked, labored over, refined, finished, and hung.  Viewers don’t see the weeks, months or maybe even years that have gone into each piece or series. 
For this show I am planning on sharing three groups or works, or perhaps they should be called explorations, that are all at different levels of development – learning a new skill, connecting to an old skill, and refining a developed skill. Similar to bringing someone into a studio visit,  I expect to be surprised by what I shared just like everyone else.

Artist Bio
Alison Croney Moses (b. 1983) is a Boston based artist investigating craft, community, identity, and motherhood. Her work is in the collections of the Detroit Institute of the Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Rose Art Museums, and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. She is a recipient of the 2022 USA Fellowship in Craft, and 2023 Boston Artadia Award, a finalist of the 2024 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize and the recipient of the 2024 Black Mountain College International Artist Prize and the recent recipient of the 2025 Rappaport Prize