Crystal Ann Brown is an interdisciplinary artist/mother and academic currently working in Buckhannon, West Virginia. In 2012 she earned her MFA in sculpture and expanded practice from Ohio University School of Art. Her work aims to reveal and sometimes romanticize the underappreciated aspects of everyday life through the use of textiles, sculpture, time-based media, social practice, and drawing. Crystal is also the founder and director of The Hown’s Den: A Nomadic + Domestic Exhibition Space that works to bring a holistic experience of contemporary art and domestic life to her community. She has shown nationally and internationally and was included in Chasing Horizons, at the Charles Allis Museum of Decorative Arts in Milwaukee, WI in 2014. In 2018 her work was included in the Gift exhibition at the Moon Gallery, Mount Berry, Gorgia and at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio, in 2015 and 2020. In 2019 her work was shown as part of the West Virginia Invitational at the Juliet Museum of Art in Charleston, West Virginia, and her work was included in the Exhibitions Why Mom, in Maddison, WI, re:birth 2019, and Homework 2020 in Edinburgh, UK and The Anthropology of Motherhood Culture of Care, Carlow University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. Crystal is currently an adjunct professor in the art department at West Virginia Wesleyan College and is the director of the Sleeth gallery.