Ashley T. is the founder of BOUNTIFUL Pride. She is a self-taught, award-winning, multidisciplinary, disabled artist from Toronto. As a young, Black Biracial, Bisexual Woman with Bipolar Disorder, Ashley T. has coined herself as “The BiFecta”.

 

She creates intersectional and mixed media art that bridges the realms of abstract visual, literary, and performance art. She works with diverse materials spanning from acrylic paints on canvas, to ink on paper, her voice on the mic, and her body on the stage.

 

Inspired by her intersectional identities, she prides herself on immersing her art with political insight, positive and negative emotion, and abstract symbolism. At its foundation, her art celebrates Black female empowerment, Queer pride, and mental health. She uses her art to ground and remind herself of the power she possesses to be a positive change in this world. Each piece she creates is a small chapter of her visual memoire.

 

Ashley is also the winner of SKETCH’s 2021 Black Artist Spotlight Scholarship, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s 2021 Queer Emerging Artist Award, Art Starts’ 30th Anniversary Logo Contest, and the recipient of the Buddies in Bad Times 2021 Pride in Place Grant, Art Starts’ 2022 Art Forward Grant, and the 2021, 2022, and 2023 Community One Foundation Rainbow Grant.