Artist Information
Alison Spain is a Washington, D.C.-based artist whose work engages the physical, cultural, and temporal landscapes. Alison works primarily in painting and drawing, in large format, mural scale works such as Kgoyom, and smaller, more intimate pieces. Her work also incorporates digital drawing, social practices, and installation.

Alison is available for commissions and collaborations. Her current research interests include caregiving labor & motherhood as artistic production and the narrative power of landscape architecture, site-specific interventions, and wayfinding to illuminate and obscure our collective cultural and political history.

Alison has taught in a variety of settings, from Pre-K to University; indigenous Totonacapan in Puebla, México to Northeast, D.C.; outdoor school to county jail. She is available for private and group lessons; collaboratively-designed workshops & events; and consultation. She is enthused by interdisciplinary collaborations and arts integration at all levels. Se habla español.

Teaching experience includes:
Montana State, George Mason University, Prescott College, Arlington Art Center, and LifePieces to Masterpieces.

Bio
Born 1974, Buffalo, New York. Alison received her MFA from Montana State University. She has studied with Oroon Barnes, Marilyn Frasca, Sara Mast, Harold Schlotzhauer, and Jay Schmidt. In 2005, Alison received a Fulbright Fellowship for her project, Art Without Borders,. She is the 2008 winner of the prestigious Most Patriotic Pet Award from the American Visionary Art Museum pet parade (Award shared with Norwegian Elkhound Cody).