Miranda Aisling (ash-lean)’s mission is to reconnect art to daily life, a purpose you can see through her work as an interdisciplinary artist, community organizer, and creative entrepreneur.
Across her disciplines, Aisling exudes an unfettered joy in creating and a deep desire to ignite this joy in others. Her paintings are pure explorations of color and shape, created through a layered and reactionary process that combines adding and obscuring in equal measures. Aisling’s original folk songs, performed on both piano and guitar, combine a frank vulnerability with light social commentary.
Art became life with Aisling’s intentionally crafted tiny house, Aubergine. Built by Aisling and her mother, Amy, in 2015-2016 as a public art project in Concord, Massachusetts, the purple tiny house has been toured by over 10,000 people through artist residencies and the annual Massachusetts Tiny House Festival, which Aisling coordinated.
Through her creative businesses, including Miranda’s Hearth and the Art Loan Program, Aisling works to make art accessible, approachable, and affordable. In 2013, she launched her book Don’t Make Art, Just Make Something which became the subject of a TEDx talk in March 2014. This message, that everyone makes something, is at the center of her nexus of creative endeavors.
Aisling holds a Masters of Education in Community Art from Lesley University and a Bachelors of Art in Studio Art from Mary Baldwin University. Currently, she is the Head of Education & Engagement at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
