The Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts(CIRCA) presents curator Ashley Molese, who will lead a professional development session designed to help build connections with venues, funders, agencies, performers and artists.

Ashley Molese is an independent curator, producer and festival organizer. She has over fifteen years of non-profit experience, and since 2018 has founded studios, worked in film, and continues to collaborate with artists on upcoming installations. She specializes in temporary public art, new media and large-scale design/build projects. Molese managed and curated Light City during its first three years of development and festival delivery. Previously, she worked in a variety of arts organizations, including Arts Access Victoria, Arts Victoria, Australia, the Overload Poetry Festival, the Melbourne Writers Festival and the Creative Alliance.

She received a masters of arts in arts management from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and received a master of fine arts in curatorial practice at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014. She currently splits her time between Baltimore and New York.

Admission is free.