OUR TEAM

  • A Texan turned New Yorker, Molly is an all-in-one balanced combination of creativity and business savvy. Along with founder C. Finley, Molly scaled the EWB from a one-day art show to a one month, multicity, international art event. Molly's been with the Every Woman Biennial from the inception in 2014 and has worn the Executive Director/Producer hat since 2019. She serves on the EWB Board of Directors as VP and Treasurer.

    Molly left her corporate real estate job in 2015 and started her boutique firm, Caldwellings Real Estate, primarily serving artists and creatives. She’s been featured in O Magazine for her culinary prowess, worked on independent films, and collaborated on various art projects with the HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN collective (Whitney Biennial), FiveMyles Gallery, and the Every Woman Biennial. Molly also enjoyed a stint at Brooklyn Botanic Garden managing and creating membership events for 18,000+ members, developing marketing and branded collateral for the membership department, and increasing membership sales by $100,000 in a single weekend, a Garden record.

    Molly's a firm believer in building it if it doesn’t exist and building it better if it does. She lives in Brooklyn with people, cats, and a garden that is a constant source of inspiration.

  • Ashley Edes is a visual artist, designer and creative producer.

    With two decades of global experience in branding, digital media, and experiential design; Edes is committed to forging partnerships between companies and creatives that set new standards in the ethos of business. Edes began her career in NYC where she spearheaded global marketing for IMG Fashion’s 30+ events worldwide and launched the social channels for Fashion Week New York, Miami, Toronto, Istanbul and Sydney, organically growing their audience to one million. In 2014, Edes moved to Los Angeles and ran experiential marketing for TOMS, developing values-aligned experiences for the pioneering “One for One” lifestyle brand. Projects include We Are One, a female-identified art and music festival during SXSW in partnership with Gxrlschool, featuring Madame Gandhi, Kate Nash, and three-time Grammy Award winner Angelique Kidjo. Also with TOMS, she launched a disruptive campaign with Tinder to raise awareness for World Sight Day (resulting in 2.7 million views in four days). 

    Leveraging the skills and contacts from her corporate experience and design school at Shillington Education NY, Edes started FATA Productions in 2021 to focus on elevating women and gender expansive artists and filmmakers. Serving both individuals and organizations as a conduit, she amplifies their message by guiding the identity, strategy and execution of that vision based on a shared value system. Assuming responsibility as a creator, she is driven to proactively co-create these new models of artistic, business and experiential harmonization to shape a regenerative future.

  • Erin Ko is a classically trained fine artist with 20+ years of experience as a game and app developer, Ko’s practice builds on hybrid approaches to art, sculpture, video, sound, with reality-expanding technologies viewers can opt in or out of. Layered and mediated realities, techno-socio isolation, digital privilege, and transcendence through technology are themes she explores. The result is an ongoing mashup of street art, mixed reality, totems, paintings, NFTs, performances, wearables, and other collaborative works.

    Erin works with many creators and organizations, including The Museum of Moving Image, MoMAR, Third Rail Art, Radiance VR, The Gene Frankel Theatre, CADAF, JCMAP, Every Woman Biennial, and Recess. She is a member of Crema Colletiva, Lumen Prize, and MoMA’s R&D Salons. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in London, Mexico City, Tulum, Beijing, New York, and Berlin. 

    More commercial includes time spent at Looking Glass Studios, Razorfish, and Blue Fang Games. 

    She is the co-founder of Hutong Games, which aims to democratize game development through visual scripting tools. 

    In 2018, Ko helped create and produce the Akumal Arts Festival, an annual week-long celebration of community and art-making in the pueblo of Akumal, Tulum, Mexico. 

    Her current passion project is an immersive, XR rock opera titled “The Verse.”

  • C. Finley, Founder the Every Woman Biennial is known for her elaborate paintings and intense use of color, monumental murals, multi-disciplinary collaborations, and her activism through urban art interventions, including her acclaimed Wallpapered Dumpsters. 

    As the creator of the Every Women Biennial—formerly the Whitney Houston Biennial, 2014 to 2024, she exhibited over 1,400 female and non-binary artists in New York, Los Angeles, and London. The result was an interdisciplinary explosion of art hung salon style. By presenting such a rich variety—from paintings to performances, sculptures and flash mobs—the Every Women Biennial is a social practice artwork in itself.

    Her art and public works produce the conditions needed to change our world, encouraging other artists to create alongside her in spaces defined by vibratory beauty where all are welcome to glimpse the utopia that is already present, that we need only lean into.