(b. 1992)
Ashlee is a serbo-american object poet who grew up in California. A part of the Yugoslavian diaspora, she explores themes of mother-line, lands, and “holy origin”. Using fiber, text, and performance, her hope is to guide people to enter their own inner landscapes and explore and heal cultural holds on personal narrative & believes we can only do this collectively.
Exhibitions
Tall Blonde | Berlin Art Institute participatory performance and textile piece, 2025
Body is a Form | showcased work Breadbodies, touch and bread dolls play stations, Dodge Street Gallery, Iowa City, IA
Glimmers, Group Art Exhibit – Conversations with Saint Cyril, Cover Crop as Blouse, 3 stops+sun sets @4, Northeast Sculpture Gallery- Minneapolis, MN, 2024
Tit for Tat | Group Art Exhibit and Community Zine, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA, 2023
Reading & Exhibition | Berlin.InTranslation – A Multisensory exhibit & reading about migration and movement | Hopscotch Reading Room X Oyoun Kultur Neudenken, 2023
Performance
Cords, community performance piece, displayed pieces from Bloodwork: menstrual blood icicle-Dodge Street Gallery, Iowa City, IA, 2024
Nie Theater X B.IT | Writing and performance, Nie’s ‘Aktionswoche’ | Script co-written and developed in following languages: Korean, Arabic, Serbian, Brazilian Portuguese, Pashto, Spanish, German and English, 2023
Bound | University of Iowa Theater’s New Play Festival, played Pey Lin, 2023
Workshops
Nine Types Enneagram Workshop, facilitator at Sway Leadership, 2019-present
Active Listening and Powerful Questioning Workshop, facilitator at Sway Leadership, 2019-present
Winter Natural Plant Dye Workshop | hosted a land walk and plant observation workshop focused around Iowa City landscapes, taught attendees how to forage and dye textiles using plants, 2023
Deep Listening Workshop | through coaching practice have held numerous workshops around curiosity, 2020
Publications
Migration Alphabet (Migraciona Azbuka) | Strane Magazine, translation by Ena Marija Gojak, 2023
House Pride (Kuća Ponos) | Strane Magazine, translation by Ivana Ječmenica, 2023
Blagoslovi | cotton quilt and language guide, Strane Magazine, 2023
Artist Interview | Purposeful Mayo Magazine, Issue 3.5; PDF, 2023
Who Owns This Flower? | Ein.Buch Haus and in collaboration with Julia Fabricius
Toxins in the Womb; $95/Hour | Purposeful Mayo Magazine, Issue 3; PDF, page 11
Daily Weather Report | writer for Season 1 of forecasts
Enneaflip, writer and co-creator, 2020
Nine Shapes Project | created shapes as archetypes to expand thinking of enneagram in form of card game, 2019
Education/Residencies
Berlin Art Institute, studio Resident, 2024
Berlin Art Institute: completed courses TOWARDS A WORLD SHIP: Understanding the Ecological Crisis through Arts by Dorine van Meel & FLORAL TIME by Joseph Walsh, 2022-2023
CP Enneagram Academy, certified practitioner of enneagram framework, 2019
International Coaching Federation, licensed PCC level transformational coach, 2016
Bachelor of Arts, Vanguard University, Cultural Anthropology, 2014
Navigate work archives ↓
At the break of – communing, what and who do we consume? This page holds collaborations, community workshops and edible art.
Witnessing origin stories – how we exist with the identities and in the body we didn’t choose? Here find works which are decided to ancestry, dance, and performance.
Construct. recycle. dye. stitch. build. (a) Self! how does the soft animal of ourself transform? These pieces are clothes, quilts, soft sculptures, artist books, and textiles as the outer ways we wish to nest in the world.