Ashley Eliza Williams grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains in SW Virginia. She is a painter and sculptor making work about interspecies communication, non-human language, and exploring alternative ways to engage with nature and with each other. Williams has exhibited widely including at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Wasserman Projects, Kunstmuseum Hersbruck in Germany, and The New York Hall of Science. She was a recent Massachusetts Fellow at MassMoCA Studios and the 2023 Lucille Walton Fellow at UVA’s Mountain Lake Biological Station. She often works with scientists including at Shoals Marine Laboratory, The Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, and McDonald Observatory. She is a lecturer at Smith College.