Ashley Webb

Ashley received her BA in History and Anthropology from Longwood University, in Farmville, Virginia, and her MA in Museum Studies from Bournemouth University, in Dorset, England. She is the Executive Director and Curator of Collections and Exhibitions with the Historical Society of Western Virginia, which operates both the Roanoke History and the O. Winston Link Museums. In addition to her job with the Historical Society, Ashley works with several local museums as a contract museum collections specialist, including the Taubman Museum of Art and the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, and has guest curated exhibitions throughout central and southwest Virginia. Her specialty is fashion history, and she owns Bustle Textiles – a historic dress preservation company with an emphasis on creating traveling fashion exhibitions for small museums.