Ashon Crawley
Photo credit: Kristen Joy Emack
Artist Fellow, Artist Exchange, Exhibiting Artist
Ashon Crawley is a writer, artist and teacher, exploring the intersection of performance, blackness, queerness and spirituality. Associate professor of Religious Studies and African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia, he is author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham University Press) and The Lonely Letters (Duke University Press). He is currently at work on a critical history and nonfiction as well as a short story collection—both about the Hammond B3 organ, the Black Church and sexuality; as well as a third book about black social life. A Princeton University Crossroads Project Arts Fellow, a MacDowell interdisciplinary arts fellow, and a New City Arts Initiative Fellow, his work has been featured at Second Street Gallery, Welcome Gallery, Bridge Projects and the California African American Museum. All his work is about otherwise possibility.
Instagram: @ashoncrawleyart; @otherwiseartslab
Bio courtesy of the artist.
