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Ashley Callahan is an independent scholar and curator in Athens, Georgia, with a specialty in modern and contemporary American decorative arts. She served as the first Curator of Decorative Arts at the Georgia Museum of Art from 2000-2008 where she curated numerous exhibitions, including The Arts and Crafts Movement in North Georgia and Earl McCutchen: Craftsmanship in Ceramics and Glass, and organized the first four Henry D. Green Symposia of the Decorative Arts.
She is the author of the books Georgia Bellflowers: The Furniture of Henry Eugene Thomas (2011), Modern Threads: Fashion and Art by Mariska Karasz (2007), and Enchanting Modern: Ilonka Karasz, 1896-1981 (2003), and has contributed articles to The Journal of Modern Craft, Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum, the Archives of American Art Journal, and The New Georgia Encyclopedia. She is also a contributor to Ornament Magazine. The University of Georgia Press recently published her book Southern Tufts: The Regional Origins and National Craze for Chenille Fashion about the history of northwestern Georgia’s tufted garments. Callahan, who grew up in Dalton, received her B.A. from Sewanee and her M.A. in the history of American decorative arts from the Smithsonian and Parsons.