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[ID: A headshot of a woman standing in front of a stone wall. Although her body is turned away from the camera, she looks over her right shoulder to stare directly at the viewer with brown eyes. Her skin is dark brown and she has curly hair that falls just below her chin.]
This award was generously supported by the Barr Foundation.
Alison Croney Moses finds the moment in time, space, and community where there is balance, and in that balance, we find the critical moment of transformation — of wood, of a person, of an organization, of the field of craft, and ultimately, of a society.
Croney Moses has worked over the past fifteen years in alternative education settings to build out education programs that center the communities they work with while fulfilling the missions of the institutions. Her work is in the collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and elsewhere and has been featured in American Craft Magazine. She is currently associate director at the Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts, where she founded its Teen Bridge and Artist in Residence programs to help cultivate the current and next generations of artists and leaders in art and craft.
Croney Moses holds an MA in sustainable business and communities from Goddard College and a BFA in furniture design from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Portrait photo by Tyahra Angus.
White Shell, 2005. Holly veneer. Dimensions 28 × 18 × 20 inches. Photo by Mark Johnston
[ID: Photograph of a light-colored wooden sculpture composed of panels that are bent into the shape of a conch shell. Bits of wood extend from the exterior of the shell like a fringe.]
My Babies, 2021. Part of the series “My Black Body.” Cedar wood, milk paint, dimensions:  13.25 × 13.25 × 58.5 inches. Commissioned for the Designing Motherhood exhibition by the Maternity Care Coalition Advisors. Photo by Constance Mench.
[ID: Photograph of a wooden sculpture in an exhibition space. The sculpture is in the shape of a person on a pedestal and has a smooth surface with additional pieces attached — one that resembles an infant in arms, and larger, rounded piece attached at the bottom that resembles a sack.]
Cedar Pod Salmon, 2017. Cedar wood, milk paint. Dimensions 10 × 8 × 8 inches. Photo by Michelle Davidson-Shapiro Photography.
[ID: Photograph of a rounded wooden vessel with the grain visible on its surface. The lid, made of the same type of wood, comes to a conical point and rests alongside it. The inside of the vessel is painted a salmon color.]