Alison Crocetta maintains a hybrid art practice that draws on her experience working within the realms of sculpture, performance art and the moving image. Her projects are often interdisciplinary and collaborative. Crocetta’s work has been performed, exhibited, and screened in Brazil, Norway, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with recent solo exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in Ohio. 

Crocetta’s honors and awards include an Individual Excellence Award in the category of Interdisciplinary/Performance Art from the Ohio Arts Council in 2015, a 2011–2012 Franklin Furnace Fund award for performance art, and a 2010–2011 EMPAC DanceMovies film commission. She was an artist-in-residence at the Kriti Gallery in Varanasi, India; Nordic Artists' Center in Dale, Norway; the Agora Collective in Berlin, Germany; the Film/Video studio program at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH; and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in New York City. Crocetta was also a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) grant in sculpture. 

Crocetta is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and recently served as the Director of the Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise at The Ohio State University. Alison’s work as an artist is informed by her engagement with meditation and integrative therapies such yoga and Reiki. She has established Open Channel Reiki as a platform for her practice and related research. Before joining OSU, she held teaching positions at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University and the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and served as the Associate Chair of the Foundation Department of the Parsons School of Design at The New School. 

Website Links:

• https://alisoncrocetta.com/
• https://www.openchannelreiki.com/