Catherine Ashley is a multimedia designer and performance artist presently based in Providence, RI. Her work is designed to interrogate and challenge societal understandings of temporality and the motivations of biological processes. Incorporating backgrounds in film, animation, design, music composition and theater performance, she creates installation-based work situated under the umbrella of time, gesture and performance emphasized by visual and auditory experiences. As an educator, Ashley prioritizes mutual learning and development through collaboration, iterative processes and self as medium.
Ashley holds an MFA in Digital + Media from RISD and a BA in Film + Media Arts and Theatre Arts from American University.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
FOUND 1005-07 - STUDIO: SPATIAL DYNAMICS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
FOUND 1005-07
STUDIO: SPATIAL DYNAMICS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: M | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM; M | 8:30 AM - 12:00 PMInstructor(s): Catherine AshleyLocation(s): What Cheer Studios, Room 101Enrolled / Capacity: 20Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Studio: Spatial Dynamics is a studio-based inquiry into physical, spatial and temporal phenomena. The study of Spatial Dynamics is rooted in the necessity to consider forces and their effects on structure. Force is the consequence of energy. In Spatial Dynamics the energy and resultant forces are studied in actual motion, stability, and materiality. The structures of physical, spatial and temporal phenomena are studied through additive, subtractive, transformative, iterative, and ephemeral processes both analog and digital. Mediums and materials that are commonly explored and utilized have a broad range of characteristics due to their organic and synthetic sources. Most assignments utilize methods such as preliminary sketches and diagrams in research, planning, and experimental processes. Assignments reference the histories and theories of art and design and include areas of inquiry that extend to disciplines such as the sciences, music, dance, film, and theater.
Enrollment is limited to First-Year Undergraduate Students.
Major Requirement | BFA
FOUND 1005-09 - STUDIO: SPATIAL DYNAMICS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
FOUND 1005-09
STUDIO: SPATIAL DYNAMICS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 1:30 PM - 6:00 PM; T | 9:30 AM - 12:30 PMInstructor(s): Catherine AshleyLocation(s): What Cheer Studios, Room 101Enrolled / Capacity: 20Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Studio: Spatial Dynamics is a studio-based inquiry into physical, spatial and temporal phenomena. The study of Spatial Dynamics is rooted in the necessity to consider forces and their effects on structure. Force is the consequence of energy. In Spatial Dynamics the energy and resultant forces are studied in actual motion, stability, and materiality. The structures of physical, spatial and temporal phenomena are studied through additive, subtractive, transformative, iterative, and ephemeral processes both analog and digital. Mediums and materials that are commonly explored and utilized have a broad range of characteristics due to their organic and synthetic sources. Most assignments utilize methods such as preliminary sketches and diagrams in research, planning, and experimental processes. Assignments reference the histories and theories of art and design and include areas of inquiry that extend to disciplines such as the sciences, music, dance, film, and theater.
Enrollment is limited to First-Year Undergraduate Students.
Major Requirement | BFA
Spring 2025 Courses
FOUND 1006-25 - STUDIO: SPATIAL DYNAMICS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
FOUND 1006-25
STUDIO: SPATIAL DYNAMICS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
PeriodSpring 2025
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: T | 1:30 PM - 6:00 PM; T | 9:30 AM - 12:30 PMInstructor(s): Catherine AshleyLocation(s): What Cheer Studios, Room 101Enrolled / Capacity: 20Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Studio: Spatial Dynamics is a studio-based inquiry into physical, spatial and temporal phenomena. The study of Spatial Dynamics is rooted in the necessity to consider forces and their effects on structure. Force is the consequence of energy. In Spatial Dynamics the energy and resultant forces are studied in actual motion, stability, and materiality. The structures of physical, spatial and temporal phenomena are studied through additive, subtractive, transformative, iterative, and ephemeral processes both analog and digital. Mediums and materials that are commonly explored and utilized have a broad range of characteristics due to their organic and synthetic sources. Most assignments utilize methods such as preliminary sketches and diagrams in research, planning, and experimental processes. Assignments reference the histories and theories of art and design and include areas of inquiry that extend to disciplines such as the sciences, music, dance, film, and theater.
Enrollment is limited to first-year undergraduate students.
