Ashley Harris works at the intersections of glass, performance, and collaboration. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, she is a trained dancer and architectural designer, backgrounds that deeply inform her thinking about movement, embodiment, and the built environment. Introduced to fused glass at a young age, Harris has maintained a long-standing interest in the material and its expressive potential. 

Through glass, Ashley Harris investigates color, fragility, and natural forms, using the medium to move fluidly between traditional craft and contemporary sculpture and installation. Her practice positions glass as a performative and spatial material shaped by movement, collaboration, and site. By weaving personal and collective narratives of belonging into these interdisciplinary frameworks, Harris challenges material hierarchies and expands how glass can be activated and experienced beyond conventional approaches to craft.

Harris lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where she is a Critic in the Glass Department at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin, and attended RISD for her MFA in Glass. Her honors include the 2023 Socrates Sculpture Park Annual Fellowship, the Pilchuck Glass School Fellowship, the Rochester Institute of Technology Glass Studio Artist in Residence, the Assets for Artists Studio Residency at MASS MoCA, the 2025 Black Glass Artist Series at Alfred University, and Arrowmont School of Craft 2026 Pentaculum Residency. 

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and artist spaces such as GalleryX in Dublin, Ireland; WheatonArts Museum of American Glass in Millville, New Jersey, Socrates Sculpture Park in New York City, New York, and  the Karen and Ted Koskores Gallery in Braintree, Massachusetts.