Costume Designer Ashley Horn Nott

Ashley Horn is a dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, costume designer, and dance educator from the Houston area.  She has created costumes for FrenetiCore, Frame Dance Productions, Open Dance Project, Sara Draper, Teresa Chapman, Karen Stokes, Houston Metropolitan Dance, The Pilot Dance Project, and her own works. Ashley is a two-time recipient of an individual artist grant from the Houston Arts Alliance for choreography, has been the artist in residence at Hope Stone and Rice University and has been a guest choreographer for Rice University, Houston Community College, and The Pilot Dance Project. Ashley is an education specialist at Hope Stone, Inc. and a curriculum developer at Frame Dance Productions.

Shelby Craze is a Houston based artist whose interdisciplinary practice centers around movement-based performance and sculpture. Craze has extensively studied classical ballet and contemporary techniques which inform her own improvisational practice. In her high school years, she trained at Vitacca Dance Project under the guidance of Kelly Ann Vitacca and Phillip Broomhead, former principal dancer with the Royal Ballet. She has attended intensives at American Ballet Theater, Princess Grace Academy in Monaco, and Boston Ballet, training under artists including Gioia Masala, Lia Cirio, and Michele Gifford. After graduating high school, Craze went on to train at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Modern Ballet program, training under Scottish Ballet faculty including Louisa Ross, Diana Loosmore, and Jamiel Laurence. After returning to Houston in 2019, her artistic practice took a turn as she decided to focus on sculpture and performance art. She began her studies at the University of Houston under the guidance of Jillian Conrad and Paul Kittelson. During her time at UH, Craze has had the opportunity to show her work at venues including the Blaffer Art Museum, Elgin Street Studios, and the Orange Show. Her innate desire to transform used and discarded things into new ideas has been invaluable in her transition from a strictly dance career to one more engulfed in art in its entirety. She looks forward to graduating with her BFA in Sculpture in Spring 2025.