Alison Croney Moses

A Boston-based artist, Alison Croney Moses creates wooden objects that reach out to our senses—the smell of cedar, the color of honey or the deep blue sea, the round form that signifies safety and warmth, the gentle curve that beckons to be touched...

Forging a career path that prioritizes the values and habits of creativity, craft, and connection to materials, along with the transformative power of the arts, Alison has spent over 15 years creating educational experience for all ages through teaching, program development and non-profit leadership with the aim of cultivating the current and next generation of artists and leaders in art and craft.

"Born and raised in North Carolina (USA), by Guyanese parents, making clothing, food, furniture, and art is embedded in my memories of home life. As a child art and making was my guiding light, providing space for escape, reflection, and connection. In my art practice today in Boston, MA, I draw inspiration from the materials and processes themselves, capturing universal forms from nature and the human body. Other times, inspiration comes from conversations, gatherings and memories of my own experiences of childhood and motherhood, reframing my memories while I strive for a life of self-love, in the face of a society dominated by messages of self-hate. The process of making is both intimate and physical, a therapy of sorts, constantly repeating the mantra, I am not alone in this human experience. Trained as a furniture maker, I use a combination of timeless woodworking techniques, such as coopering and bent lamination, to create intricate shapes with a subtle nod to the female form. The resulting work reaches out to our senses of smell and sight and our impulse to touch, to hold, to be held, connecting us to our body and the experiences that have shaped us into the people we are today. I create situations and objects that resonate with our identity and compel us to find commonality in our experiences, especially those that society has told us are private or insignificant. In recognizing we are not alone, we bridge the gap between the individual and the collective, and are therefore challenged to heal, to build community, and to take action to build a more just future," says the artist.

Alison’s work explores themes of family, relationship, pregnancy, childbirth, safety, and care. Her work investigates the ‘private’ and ‘personal’ of life experiences that often encourages isolation and deterioration and in turn her work sparks dialogue, building a community of people with similar experiences and creating spaces of processing through care and repair.

Her works are in the collections at the Detroit Institute of the Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Rose Art Museum at Brandies, and the Fuller Craft Museum. She is a recipient of the 2023 Boston Artadia Award, the 2022 USA Fellowship in Craft, a finalist of the 2024 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize, the recipient of the 2024 Black Mountain College International Artist Prize, and the 2025 Foster Prize at the ICA Boston. Her work has been featured in American Craft Magazine Boston Art Review. She was named one of the 2023 WBUR 10 Makers and is currently one of the Triennial Accelerator Artists for the 2025 Boston Public Art Triennial. Alison serves at a Trustee at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She holds an MA in Sustainable Business & Communities from Goddard College, and a BFA in Furniture Design from Rhode Island School of Design.