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Inspired by my maternal grandmother who began painting at age 50, I picked up a paint brush for the first time shortly after my 40th birthday. I work exclusively with acrylics, and my portrait style is influenced by Pop Art masters like Lichtenstein, Haring, and Warhol. I also enjoy more traditional, holiday-specific art and hand letterin
Inspired by my maternal grandmother who began painting at age 50, I picked up a paint brush for the first time shortly after my 40th birthday. I work exclusively with acrylics, and my portrait style is influenced by Pop Art masters like Lichtenstein, Haring, and Warhol. I also enjoy more traditional, holiday-specific art and hand lettering. Check out my portfolio and email me for more information about commissions and holiday paintings.
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I graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas with a masters degree in Liberal Studies concentrating on issues of Human Rights and Social Justice, and Gender Studies. This education experience has transformed me in many ways and prompted me to document my life experiences via my graduate thesis which I hope to publish as a book
I graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas with a masters degree in Liberal Studies concentrating on issues of Human Rights and Social Justice, and Gender Studies. This education experience has transformed me in many ways and prompted me to document my life experiences via my graduate thesis which I hope to publish as a book after graduation. I'm also the co-author of Changes: One Family's Journey with a Transgender Teen which I wrote with my mother and son. Check us out on Amazon!
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Over the course of my graduate work, I've been asked to participate in lecture series', panels, and undergraduate courses as a guest speaker on topics plucked from my life ranging from parenting a transgender teen to my personal food journey/lifelong obesity to widowhood to my dissociation from the Christianity of my youth. Stay tuned as future speaking engagements will be listed here.
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December 2020: Ashlea graduated from Southern Methodist University as a Master of Liberal Studies.
October 2020: Ashlea presented at the 2020 Annual AGLSP Conference on the subject of transparenting.
August 2020: Two of Ashlea's paintings and one of her essays were featured in the 2020 edition of Pony Express(ions), the journal of SMU's Graduate Liberal Studies Program.
