Alleson Buchanan

Neon artist

Alleson Buchanan is a full-time neon glass bender based on Vashon Island. She’s a queer Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) who became a full time artist because she craves deep meaning in everything she does. She founded Radiant Neon in 2018, where she creates her body of work and teaches the occasional neon class.

Alleson brings playful intensity to everything she does and has a very research oriented art practice. Her work has strong emphases on astrology, mythology, tarot, intersectional feminism, and racial and social justice.

Alleson holds an MFA in Arts Leadership from Seattle University. She is a member of the Glass Art Society, and the first all womxn neon collective, She Bends. She is a founding member and the vice president of the Neon Makers Guild, and a cofounder of the Dockton Art Walk. When she’s not making neon she’s either thrifting, playing with her pups or co-hosting her podcast, Neon Nonsense.​​