Where Emergence began
A reflection on the 2022 Booth Museum exhibition and the collection that clarified a direction forward.
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Rader Art StudiosInquireNotes from Ashley
The Studio
Journal.
Art in progress, rooms in conversation, and the life surrounding the work.
A living archive
What I'm making.
What I'm learning.
Where it leads.
This is a more personal view into Rader Art Studios—a place for process, projects, travel, conservation, events, and the ideas that connect art to the way we live.
Interior studies
coming soon
coming soon
Featured desk / Interiors & DecoratingThe art of
The art of
the room.
Before working in art full-time, I worked in interior design and alongside architects. That way of seeing never left. I still think about scale, balance, light, material, and the small rooms that can completely change how a home feels.
Here I'll share renovation notes, decorating ideas, material studies, art placement, and the details I love most—especially kitchens, bathrooms, and closets.
Discuss a design collaboration ↗Tannery Row Artist Colony
The Colony
Noticeboard.
Open calls, juried exhibitions, studio gatherings, workshops, and news from the artists working at Tannery Row.
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Studio notes,
from the work.
The work between marks
Detail is visible. The quieter work is deciding what belongs, what disappears, and when the image has found its presence.
Read the entry ↗Two ways to make it live
How hyper-realistic performance and collaborative abstraction create two very different relationships with a room.
Read the entry ↗A moose for conservation
Inside the creation of a new moose painting for Ducks Unlimited—and the wider group of wildlife works taking shape alongside it.
Read the entry ↗Inside Tannery Row
A new journal series from Ashley’s studio at Tannery Row Artist Colony—sharing the artists, works in progress, and gatherings taking shape in Buford.
Read the entry ↗Meet Dewey
A proper introduction to the handsome, sweet, exceptionally well-fed little presence at the heart of studio life.
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Keep up with
what's unfolding.
Follow the studio for current work, behind-the-scenes moments, event announcements, and the first look at new journal entries.
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See what takes
shape next.
Receive new-work releases, studio invitations, live-painting announcements, and selected notes from Tannery Row.