Asya Lesly grew up in Amarillo, Texas. Her grandmothers taught her to sew when she was three-years-old.  She has been interested in fiber arts ever since, dabbling in weaving, knitting, crochet, cross stitch, latch hook, and more.   Asya is often asked if she loved dolls as a kid, but she was a tomboy who preferred capturing insects.

After college, Asya moved to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia and worked as an occupational therapist in a nursing home. She bought a little farmhouse with a barn and tended a small herd of goats. She met her husband  who works for the National Park Servicein a dance class. They soon moved to northern California.

Asya currently lives in Mineral, California, a mountain village of 90 people. She is busy raising two sons and creating art. She began making art dolls in 2002 and art quilts in 2007.

Exhibitions

2009 Airport Health Club Gallery, two person show, Santa Rosa, CA

2009 B&B Back Room Gallery, group exhibition, Chester, CA

2009 Red Bluff Gallery, group exhibition, Red Bluff, CA

2008 B&B Back Room Gallery, group exhibition, Chester, CA

2008 Red Bluff Gallery, group exhibition, Red Bluff, CA

2006 B&B Back Room Gallery, group exhibition, Chester, CA

2005 B&B Back Room Gallery, group exhibition, Chester, CA 

Publications

Lesly, Asya (Spring 2007) Show and Tell: Dream Catcher.  Art Doll Quarterly. Pages 100-101.

Lesly, Asya (Autumn 2005) Taking Flight with Zephyr: Designing my First Doll. Art Doll Quarterly. Pages 42-43