Rare Specimen Design will host a virtual exhibition and talk with artist and writer Ashleigh Pedersen.
In her first virtual exhibition, “Other Realms,” she will talk about the ways in which painting has influenced her writing and acting, and writing and acting have influenced her painting.
Ashleigh Pedersen is a writer, actor, painter, and teacher. She is the founder of Write Well Austin, a small private tutoring business, and has nearly 15 years of experience teaching writing to students of all ages. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, where she held a teaching fellowship from 2006-2009 and won the Turow-Kinder prize for fiction.
Ashleigh's writing has been featured in New Stories from the South, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Places, the New York Public Library’s lending app Library Simplified, and shortlisted for Best American Short Stories, Fractured 2020 Flash Fiction Contest, and a Pushcart Prize. Most recently, she completed her first novel, and her short story "Crocodile"—based on the first chapter of her novel—won The Masters Review 2020 Flash Fiction Contest. Her writing is represented by Jon Curzon at Artellus Ltd. Ashleigh also regularly pursues theater and film work, and has performed with the Wimberley Players, the Gaslight-Baker Theater, Different Stages, and Frontera Fest's "Best of the Week," among others. When not focused on her novel and plays these last few years, Ashleigh began teaching herself to paint portraits and landscapes. Her training has consisted of pestering artist friends via text for tips and informal critiques, and regularly studying paintings online in her spare time.
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