Hellen Ascoli (Guatemala City / Baltimore, MD) is a weaver; a word that encompasses the other areas of discourse she is situated within: art, craft, education and translation.
Ascoli has a MFA from SAIC and her work has been exhibited internationally. Notably, her solo exhibition, “CIEN TIERRAS” at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, traveled to La Nueva Fábrica in Antigua, Guatemala in 2023. She was recently the Pollock-Krasner resident at the International Studio Curatorial Program, Brooklyn NY. She has taught at universities in Guatemala and the US, and currently teaches at MICA while developing her practice in Language Justice.