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A headshot of a woman standing in front of a stone wall. Although her body is turned away from the camera, she looks over her right shoulder to stare directly at the viewer with brown eyes. Her skin is dark brown and she has curly hair that falls just below her chin.

Photo by Tyahra Angus.

Artists

Alison Croney Moses

She // Her // Hers

Multidisciplinary Artist and Maker

Boston, Massachusetts

“This year, through the Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts, I have offered educational programs in the woodshop for Black women. These initiatives create radically welcoming and authentically supportive experiences in spaces that have historically excluded many folx. From day one, I have been in awe of women’s immense capacity to give, to love, and to create – the depth from where the creation comes from gives me hope for our future.”

Alison Croney Moses finds the moment in time, space, and community where there is balance, and in that balance, we find the critical moment of transformation — of wood, of a person, of an organization, of the field of craft, and ultimately, of a society.

Croney Moses has worked over the past fifteen years in alternative education settings to build out education programs that center the communities they work with while fulfilling the missions of the institutions. Her work is in the collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and elsewhere and has been featured in American Craft Magazine. She is currently associate director at the Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts, where she founded its Teen Bridge and Artist in Residence programs to help cultivate the current and next generations of artists and leaders in art and craft.

Croney Moses holds an MA in sustainable business and communities from Goddard College and a BFA in furniture design from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Donor -This award was generously supported by the Barr Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 07.12.2024

Craft
Photograph of a light-colored wooden sculpture composed of panels that are bent into the shape of a conch shell. Bits of wood extend from the exterior of the shell like a fringe.

White Shell by Alison Croney Moses, 2005. Holly veneer, 28 × 18 × 20 inches.

Photo by Mark Johnston

Photograph of a wooden sculpture in an exhibition space. The sculpture is in the shape of a person on a pedestal and has a smooth surface with additional pieces attached — one that resembles an infant in arms, and larger, rounded piece attached at the bottom that resembles a sack.

My Babies by Alison Croney Moses, 2021. Cedar wood and milk paint, 13.25 × 13.25 × 58.5 inches. Part of the series “My Black Body.” Commissioned for the Designing Motherhood exhibition by the Maternity Care Coalition Advisors.

Photo by Constance Mench.

Photograph of a rounded wooden vessel with the grain visible on its surface. The lid, made of the same type of wood, comes to a conical point and rests alongside it. The inside of the vessel is painted a salmon color.

Cedar Pod Salmon by Alison Croney Moses, 2017. Cedar wood and milk paint, 10 × 8 × 8 inches.

Photo by Michelle Davidson-Shapiro Photography.