Biography

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.

Born and raised in North Carolina (USA), by Guyanese parents, making clothing, food, furniture, and art is embedded in Alison’s memories of home life as a child. As Alison navigated adolescence and young adulthood, art was her guiding light, providing space for escape, reflection, and connection. She forged a career path that  prioritized the values and habits,  encouraged by her parents, of creativity, craft and connection to materials, along with and transformative power of the arts. As a result, she 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.

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.