Arts Administration program welcomes faculty member Ashley Hollan

The Arts Administration program welcomes Ashley Hollan as a visiting assistant professor.

Hollan earned a bachelor’s degree from Duke University with a double major in public policy and visual art/art history, earned a law degree from the University of Denver, completed entertainment industry master of business administration coursework at Berklee College of Music, and earned a master of arts in critical theory and a master of fine arts in visual arts from the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Hollan has owned a law firm with a focus on entertainment law and criminal defense with a catalog of clients that included touring bands, solo artists, visual artists, authors, app developers, managers, publishers, record labels, small business owners, actors and producers with scripted, unscripted and documentary film and television projects. She then joined Live Nation, where she served first as an artist rights consultant and then as associate counsel supporting the Legal, Productions, and Media and Sponsorship divisions.

As a freelance creative, business and legal consultant, Hollan works with creative people of all types, including acclaimed producers with a focus on documentary content, international touring artists in various genres, companies whose creative content includes important political messaging, law firms, alternative arts practitioners, cannabis companies, disruptive business leaders, visual artists and writers. Her nonprofit and leadership roles include service for Volunteer Lawyers and Professionals for the Arts in Tennessee and Georgia, the American Bar Association’s Entertainment and Sports divisions and Young Lawyers Divisions, where she was awarded “Star of the Quarter,” and the Immigration Justice Project, where she received an American Bar Association Commission on Immigration Pro Bono Week Award in 2021.

She joins Elon on a three-year visiting line and will be a member of the Art Department.