Allison Elia is a ceramic sculptor and painter currently residing in Warren, Rhode Island. She has exhibited her artwork across the United States and internationally in both galleries and museums since 2009, after graduating from the University of Akron, OH with a double major in painting & drawing and ceramics, summa cum laude. She received her MFA in ceramics from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth in 2013 and completed a two-year artist residency at the Art Center West in Roswell, GA in the first couple years after graduation. Elia moved to the northeast to teach as an adjunct professor at Eastern Connecticut State University in 2016. She currently teaches at ECSU, instructs art classes and workshops at Newport Art Museum and Bristol Art Museum, and creates her sculptures and paintings from her home studio in Warren, Rhode Island.