Visual artist Alison Crocetta maintains a hybrid art practice that synthesizes her background in sculpture, installation and performance work into moving image projects. Crocetta was recently awarded the Franklin Furnace Fund 2011-2012 (for performance art) for her forthcoming project for live performance entitled A Circus of One (Act II) in collaboration with composers / musicians Jason Treuting and Zac Little. Crocetta was the recipient of the 2010-11 EMPAC DanceMovies film commission to produce a 16 mm film project entitled A Circus of One in collaboration with composer, Jason Treuting. The “A Circus of One” projects are sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Her collaborative film trilogy with composer Barbara White entitled GATHER / SHED / LIFT premiered in concert with janus trio at Princeton University and has been performed at Atlas Performing Arts, Columbus Museum of Art, Purchase College, The Aspen Music Festival and Monkey Town in Brooklyn, NY. Crocetta has worked collaboratively on a range of projects including a video entitled Bear in Mind (The Bill of Rights) with American Sign Language Interpreter Charlene McCarthy and a collection of silent short videos with visual artist Joe Casey Doyle. Her work has been exhibited and screened in recent years at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, EMPAC in Troy, NY, MIT List Center for Visual Arts, Weston Art Gallery, The Galapagos Art Space, Johns Hopkins University, CoCA in Seattle, CEPA Galley in Buffalo, The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Harvard University.

Her honors and awards also include artist residencies in the Art and Technology program at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in New York City, a Bunting Fellowship at The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and regional NEA grant for individual artists. Her work has been critically reviewed nationally in publications such as The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, The Village Voice, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Crocetta received an MFA with an emphasis in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art and attended the Skowhegan School of Art. She considers teaching to be an integral part of her creative practice. She served as the Associate Chair of the Foundation Department at Parsons The New School for Design and has also held teaching positions at Washington University and Alfred University. Crocetta is currently an Associate Professor affiliated with the Sculpture Area in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University.