Bailey Ryan Hammond is an emerging fiber and sculpture artist living in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated Summa Cum Laude, obtaining a Bachelors in Fine Arts & minor in Social Practice, from Columbus College of Art & Design. Hammond is exhibited nationally, including at the Toledo Museum of Art, The Art Center in Bay City Michigan, & the Los Angeles Makery in California. Bailey recently won 3rd place in the Ohio Art League Fall Juried Exhibition. She is an Outstanding Student Achievement in Sculpture nominee. 

"My works are displays of vulnerability, exposing my deeply personal moments as vessels for healing.  I often investigate the duality of my experiences, merging traumatic subject matter with materials and processes that relate to self-care and love. Medical documents, procedure scans, bodily fluids, and text from my internal thoughts reveal parts of myself that people typically hide. Through my art, I awaken my inner child, creating multi-sensory sculptures embedded with personal mementos that serve as conduits for healing and growth. I lean into my natural tendencies, informed by my autism, ADHD and dynamic disabilites, putting myself first as an act of love. Pairing the manipulation of materials from childhood and a praxis rooted in play. Making the work becomes ritualistic and time-consuming, as the continuous labor allows me to be attentive to my past, present, and future selves."