Bryan, Ashley

Ashley Bryan was an artist and teacher. Once retired, he moved to Islesford in the Cranberry Isles. According to the Ashley Bryan Center website, "In his infinite quest to create art from “things cast off,” he recovered “treasures washed up by the sea,” on his daily walks. Ashley crafted more and more fantastic hand-held puppets from bones, shells, drift wood, fishing net, sea glass–held together with papier maché". Some of these puppets are housed in the College of the Atlantic art collection.