Meet Ashley Showalter, the Queer Artist From OKC Who Paints to Understand Her Mind

Artist Ashley Showalter is an Oklahoma City–based painter whose work is rooted in mental health, identity and the process of translating internal experience into visual form.

In this mini doc, Ashley shares how that moment shaped her practice, what she recognized in her early work that made her continue, and how her process evolves alongside her emotional and psychological state.