BIO

Alison lives in Nashville, Tennessee and has been a full time artist since 2016. Alison studied art at Rochester Institute's School of Craft, and the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a Master's in Advertising, and pursued careers in marketing and teaching. By 2016 Alison married and moved to Germany where she lived for 3 years and immersed herself in European encaustics. She traveled studying with artists in many countries and worked in a sculpture atelier with Birgit Feil in Stuttgart .Alison’s career kicked off when she was invited for membership in Germany’s oldest art guild, the Künstlerbund Stuttgart, founded in 1876.

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Alison has exhibited in the US and Europe, has work in collections at Vanderbilt University, the National US Air Force Museum, and the John Wesley Powell Museum in Utah. She has authored articles about encaustic wax and she teaches. Her work was on 10 Nashville billboards and on the cover of WAX Fusion Art magazine, and in 2023-2025 Alison's exhibition FLY GIRLS traveled across the US to 4 museums and airports. ​

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Artist Statement- Visual Anthropologies

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Alison is a feminist narrative artist. She paints "Visual Anthropologies" which are portraits honoring women who have defied traditional female roles. The series are titled “Native Women Warriors,” “Protest Singers,” and the “FLY GIRLS” which celebrates the WWII WASP, the Women Air Force Service Pilots, who were forgotten by history. 

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​In 2016 Alison left the world of consumer marketing and research and she started painting people. “I’ve always been interested in anthropology. My career in consumer marketing frequently took an anthropological approach.  We conducted ‘ethnographies,’ observing how people lived and shopped.”  Alison moved to Germany in 2016 and started observational urban sketching as she traveled. She discovered European encaustics and studied with master artists in various countries.

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In 2019 Alison returned to America after living overseas for 3 years, and began researching indigenous American women, curious of any had abandoned traditional roles. She discovered the untold stories of Native Warrior Women who protected their land and families. Euro-American culture perpetuates a fictional “princess” stereotype of native women, yet many women  fought lockstep with men and became highly respected leaders. "Native Women Warriors was my first 'American' anthropology, and this series was featured on 10 Nashville billboards during the pandemic, in early 2020, to inspire resilience."​​​​