Ashley Jonas
3325 Catalpa Drive
Dayton, OH 45405
EDUCATION
2013 MFA, Ceramics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
2010 Post-baccalaureate, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2008 BFA, Ceramics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2001 AA, SantaFe College, Gainesville FL
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Present Co-Founder/Curator The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
2017 -2024 Principle Lecturer Fine Arts Foundations, University of Dayton, Dayton OH
2024 Panel and Symposium Member, MdW Summit, Charlotte Street Foundation,
Kansas City
2022 Co-Founder and Co-Director of FUTURES : a national artist-run
symposium, Dayton OH
Visiting Artist and Curator Lecture University of Connecticut, Storrs CT
2021 Visiting Artist and Curator Lecture, Illinois State University, Normal IL
2020 Guest : I Like Your Work Podcast
2019 Panel and Symposium Member, HERE HERE, The Wexner Center, Columbus OH
Visiting Artist Lecture, Columbia Basin College, Pasco WA
Visiting Artist Lecture, Wright State University, Dayton OH
2018 Panel Member, The Creative Life Symposium, Dayton OH
Writer, Foto Focus Exhibition Essay Juan-Si Gonzalez
2017 Panel Moderator, The Influence of Instagram, NCECA Cross Currents, Pittsburgh
PA
Resident Artist and Visiting Instructor, Kansas State University, Manhattan
Arts Writer, Dayton City Paper, Dayton, Ohio
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Aerial Mo(u)rning, The Weather Station, West LaFayette IN
2023 Endings and Eternities, Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University,
Dayton OH
2021 Not Knowing, University Galleries of Illinois State, Normal IL
2019 It was just a plan, a roof, some rain, Rosewood Art Center, Kettering OH
2018 It’s likely in front of you, Dutoit Gallery, Dayton OH
2017 Questions While Walking, Sinclair Community College Works on Paper Gallery, Dayton OH
A Still Life, Project 1612, Peora IL
it’s best to be a part of something, Dutoit Gallery, Dayton OH
2015 For the Rest of Real Life, Edison Community College, Piqua OH
TWO + THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 Sentimental and Not, Rueff Gallery, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN
Extra-terrestrial and Ordinary, Esvelt Gallery Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
2017 Hers, Radial Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton OH
The Secrets We Keep, DVAC, Dayton OH
2016 Till Death Do Us Part, University of Minnesota, Regis West Gallery, Minneapolis MN
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 Shaping Time: CU Ceramics Alumni Invitational 2000–2020, CU Art Museum,
Boulder, CO
2022 Artist Run Spaces, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati OH (invited space)
2021 Build It: Artists Creating Community in Ohio, Riffe Gallery,
Columbus OH (invited artist)
The Whole is Something Else, NCECA Concurrent Exhibition, Cincinnati OH
2019 Afterlight, Undercurrent, Brooklyn NY (invited artist)
2018 Fellows, Radial Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton OH
2017 Alumni Invitational, Santa Fe College, Gainesville FL
A Sense of Place, The Gertrude Hebbert Institute of Art, Augusta GA
2016 Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) v.2, Boeckercontemporary, Heidelberg Germany
Small Favors XI, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia PA (invited artist)
2015 Still Life/the Potential of the Picturesque, NCECA Concurrent Independent
Exhibition, Provence Town PA
2014 Small Favors IX, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia PA (invited artist)
Aisthesis, Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale CO
Fiction (with only daylight between us), University of Dayton, Dayton OH
2013 Figure/Object, Time/Place, CU Art Musuem, Boulder CO
Love Stuff, The Neon Heater, Findlay OH
2012 Better Than Nothing, Grey Art Gallery, Williamsport PA
Growl, Pendleton Art Center, Middleton OH
2011 I Am Immortal, Un-smoke Systems, Braddock PA
Just What We Can Become Here, Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville TN
8x8, Spark Artspace, Syracuse, New York
I Have No Rival 2, Street Level Video Projection, Findlay, Ohio
I Have No Rival, Video Projection over the city of Dayton, Ohio
2010 No Man Can Be My Equal, Coyne Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Experiment, Coyne Gallery, Syracuse NY
Gypsies, Pirates and Cowboys, Spark Artspace, Syracuse NY
2009 48 Days Work, SI Gallery, Interlochen MI
Abstraction, Izzie’s Art Gallery, Detroit MI
The Grand Family, Atlantic Gallery, Gainesville FL
2008 Schizzi, “the gallery” Reitz Union, Gainesville FL
Banquet, Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Skopelos, Greece
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2024. SIT DOWN!, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Fotofocus Exhibition
Artist : Glenna Jennings
Festival, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Artist: Josiah Golson
2022 Welcome Home, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati OH
2021 Strange Atmospheres, EDU gallery Front Street, Dayton OH
2020 a tacit agreement, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Artist: Michael Casselli
2019 ALTERATIONS: MENTAL MODEL, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Artist: Juan-Sì Gonzàlez
Mapping Mobility, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Artists: Carolyn Kay Chema, Casey Dressel
2018 Loverbabies, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Artists: Clarissa Rose Peppers, Nick Hay
Error Theories, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Artist: Conrad Cheung
2017 Sparklemoji, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Artist: Sydney Joslin-Knapp
Former Love Letters, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Artist: Joshua Paul Hebbert
2016 Underthings, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Artist: Bridgette Bogle
End of List, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Artists: Andy Sloan Jackson, Alex Kerr
Truly Treasured, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Artist: Sophia Tuma
chaos of comfort, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Artist: Claudia Mastrobuono
2015 Future Thinking, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Artists: John Faler, Max Feldman, Marina Genetin, Seth Wade
Self as Subject, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Artists: Gianelle Gelpi, Jenna Maurice, Clarissa Rose Peppers, Joanna Powell
Plight of Abundance, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Artist: Emily Sullivan-Smith
2014 All of the Above, Below, and In Between, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton OH
Artists: Erin Dreis, Donald Fodness, Caitlin Foley, Kelsy Chase Folsom, Stephanie Gooch, Ryan McCulogh, Erin Wiersma
AWARDS/GRANTS
2024 MCACD Special Projects Grant, Montgomery County, Dayton OH
2023 MCACD Special Projects Grant, Montgomery County, Dayton OH
2022 MCACD Special Projects Grant, Montgomery County, Dayton OH
Dayton Region Arts Renewal Grants for Individual Artists, Montgomery County,
Dayton OH
2019 Vocational Discovery Grant, University of Dayton, Dayton OH
2017 Culture Works Artist Opportunity Grant, Montgomery County, Dayton OH
2013 Professional Development Grant, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder CO
Albert K. Murray Grant, Albert K. Murray Private Educational Fund, Adamsville, OH
Arts and Sciences Dean’s Award, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder CO
2012 Professional Development Grant, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder CO