Ashley Neese is an interdisciplinary artist, publisher and curator. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 2003. Neese moved to California in the summer of 2003 to attend graduate school at the California College of the Arts. Her projects and performances have been exhibited in the Bay Area, New York City, Atlanta, Portland, Providence, Toronto, ONT and Regina, SK. A year after completing graduate school she started it’s all for you, a library project that is open to the public by appointment. In 2008 she began hosting a non-denominational mediation group in her apartment and founded AFY, a publishing company that specializes in small runs of contemporary art books. Currently she is working on her company and planning a two week road trip along the Oregon Trail.

Getting Closer Everyday is a book, an exchange and an invitation. As a result of making gratitude lists often my outlook on life and connection to people, places and things has greatly improved. I want to share this useful tool with others and encourage interested parties to start their own gratitude practice. In exchange for a handmade gratitude book, participants will write on-the-spot gratitude lists that will be scanned and made into a publication.