Haylee Ebersole is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans printmaking, drawing, and sculpture. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from Metropolitan State College of Denver and an MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University. She has exhibited her work nationally at renowned spaces such as the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Center for Visual Art, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, SPACE Gallery, and Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery. Ebersole has taught drawing, mixed media, and printmaking at Carnegie Mellon University, Seton Hill University, and Carlow University. She is also the founder of Meshwork Press, a community-minded print shop in Wilkinsburg, PA, dedicated to serving high school students from under-resourced neighborhoods.
Ebersole's artistic practice encompasses an expanded approach to printmaking, exploring themes of resistance and transformation through both traditional and nontraditional techniques. Central to her work is the use of gelatin as a sculptural medium, a material imbued with its own inherent agency. Ebersole casts multiples of gelatin using everyday objects as molds, such as storage bins, roofing panels, and gutters. Over time, the gelatin undergoes various state changes, dehydrating into hardened, crystalline structures that evoke the surfaces of skin, rock, and ice. In this process, the gelatin retains traces of the man-made objects from which it was cast, yet simultaneously resists, creating unruly surfaces and disrupting the orderly confines of its original mold. Ebersole sees this material interaction as a metaphor for resistance and transformation, illustrating the abundance of possibility that can be found within systems of order and control.