MISSION NO. 4:
WHO IS FRANKIE WELCH?

MEET AUTHOR, ASHLEY CALLAHAN:
​CODE NAME THE CURATOR

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​Ashley Callahan is an independent scholar and curator in Athens, Georgia, specializing in modern and contemporary American decorative arts and craft. In 2022, the University of Georgia Press published her book Frankie Welch’s Americana: Fashion, Scarves, and Politics, and the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at UGA presented her exhibition of the same title. Her other books include Crafting History: Textiles, Metals, and Ceramics at the University of Georgia (co-author, Georgia Museum of Art, 2018) and Southern Tufts: The Regional Origins and National Craze for Chenille Fashion (UGA Press, 2015). She is a contributor to Ornament Magazine and has written for the Magazine Antiques, Metalsmith, and the Journal of Modern Craft. She served as the Curator of Decorative Arts at the Georgia Museum of Art from 2000-2008. Callahan received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Sewanee and her M.A., with honors, in the history of American decorative arts from the Smithsonian Institution and Parsons School of Design.