Education
2000 Master of Fine Arts, Fibers, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
1987 Bachelor of Science, Art and Home Economics Georgetown College, Georgetown Kentucky
Selected Juried Exhibitions
2024 Ohio Designer Craftsman Best of 2024, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
Scribble and Play, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
13th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Marshall University, Huntington, WV
2023 FELT: Fiber Transformed, Guilford Arts Center, Guilford, CT
2022 OH+5, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
2021 Women of Appalachia project, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
Dayton Area Works on Paper, Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, OH
On Paper, Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Art Center, Solomons, MD
2020 She: An Expression of Womanhood, Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Art Center, Solomons, MD
2019 Folksy: Cultural Traditions and Outside Visions, Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Art Center, Solomons, MD
2018 Of a Feather: Birds in Art, Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Art Center, Solomons, MD
2017 Text, Texture, Textile, Carlisle Arts Learning Center, Carlisle, PA
2015 Legendary Abyss, The Art Factory, Paterson, NJ
Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
In and Around the Barn, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
Body and Soul, the 2015 Kreft Juried National Exhibition, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI
2011 Dayton Area Works on Paper Rosewood Arts Center, Kettering, OH, Honorable Mention
2006 Dayton Area Works on Paper Rosewood Arts Center, Kettering, OH
2005 Materials: Hard and Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
2004 40th Annual Greater Hamilton Art Exhibit, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, OH
2003 Appalachia: A Cultural Perspective, Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, OH
2003 Roots of Racism: Ignorance and Fear, Arts in Embassies, Islamabad, Pakistan (2003-2005)
Solo Exhibitions
2015 To Spin a Yarn, Chakers Gallery, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH (solo exhibit)
2013 Running with Scissors Gallery and Gift Shoppe, Springfield, OH (solo exhibit)
2012 Rosewood Gallery, Kettering OH (solo show)
2009 Recent Works by Alyson Annette Eshelman, Interface Creative Group Gallery
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH (solo exhibit)
2008 Fiber From the Heart, Bluefield Area Arts Center, Bluefield, WV (solo exhibit)
2006 Cincinnati Weavers Guild, Cincinnati, OH (solo exhibit)
2006 Still One Body, Gates of Eden, Peoria, IL (solo exhibit)
2003 Fiber: Close to the Heart, Art on Symmes, Fairfield, OH (solo exhibit)
2002 Liquid Spectrum, Meadville Council on the Arts, Meadville, PA (two person exhibit)
2001 Still One Body; Recent Work, Asbury Art Gallery, Wilmore, KY (solo exhibit)
2000 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Teaching Experience
2016-2021 Curator of Education Springfield Museum of Art
2011-present Contractual Artist, Project Jericho, Clark State, Springfield, OH
2015 Contractual Artist, TAC Industries, Springfield, OH
2009-2010 Adjunct Instructor Studio Art, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH
2002-2005 Workshops, Art on Symmes, Fairfield, OH
2003 Workshop, The Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, OH
2001 Instructor Fiber Arts, Lourdes College, Sylvania, OH
1999-2001 Instructor 3-d Foundations, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH