ABOUT

Ash Stone (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, photographer, and educator based in Portland, Oregon. Her work, rooted in play and humor, serves as both a reclamation of agency and a healing ritual, while exploring themes of domestic dysfunction. Ash uses photography, installation, experimental short film, and her drag persona “Velveeta Fondue” as tools to examine cultural identity and the myth of the “American Dream”. With training in archival preservation practices like inkjet printing and framing, Ash approaches documentation as both a technical skill and ethical inquiry. As a mixed-race Latine, Stone draws inspiration from her inherited family photo archive, generational knowledge, and the process of grief and remembrance. She is informed by the labor and thinking of intersectional feminists, phycologists, scientists, teachers, grocery store employees, and house keepers. Ash is currently a co-director with time-based artist alliance Outer Voice and educator with Portland Community College. She holds an MFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and a BFA from the University of North Texas.