about

atelier allée : my workshop

Welcome to my workshop! I am Alli Curran, the owner of atelier atlée, a premier design, marketing, and communications consultancy service. My work is inspired from the ethereal and timeless beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains, incorporating targeted aesthetics into strategical design. I absolutely love the romanticism of careful design juxtaposed with keen analytical attention to detail in content creation.

alli curran

I began digital illustration at age 10, in which I was given my first Wacom tablet for Christmas by my grandmother.  I began immersed in learning Photoshop in my free time and participating in digital design communities. I began to grow as an artist and as a person, blending my love of science with my artistic passion.


My first job was drawing realistic portraits at a theme park, hands and face flecked with charcoal as I hauled  my biology tomes to read during my breaks. I attended Virginia Commonwealth University, majoring in Biological Anthropology.


 I studied abroad in Beijing, China,  earning an Advanced Chinese Language Diploma at Renmin University. The rigid vertical and horizontal lines of the expansive cityscape, illuminated by salient sources of unique light were truly unforgettable. Travel into Inner Mongolia offered a night sky that revealed a limitless pool of darkness dappled with a celestial scene that danced before my eyes. I retreated into my sketchbook, as I often do, and harness nostalgia into beauty.


My palpable love for learning and my endless creative spirit gave me the opportunity to pursue archaeology, participating in field school at George Washington’s Boyhood Home at Ferry Farm in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Upon graduation, I worked as a teaching assistant for the VCU Anthropology Program and worked on many archeological field projects throughout Virginia. I have completed graduate coursework in Geospatial Science and greatly enjoy the art of cartography and design.

 my journey

I have enjoyed volunteering at museums since a young age and love being active in my community. A cathartic tour of Jamestowne in my early adolescence, in which I carefully handling a musket ball, was placed into my hands by the curator. The curator was the first woman I met in STEM, changing my life forever. My experiences as a scientist are so incredibly important to me as an artist; I find them quite intertwined. This interconnectivity has allowed me to embrace my identity as a multi-faceted woman, placing great importance in the power of uplifting and elevating the voices of our community. 


I have managed exponential growth in social media and donor outreach, through employment in the Historic Sites industry. I have vast experience managing digital and print design, social media strategy and content creation, marketing, communications, and advancement. Careful curation under my direction has led to expansive growth in reach and quality of content, presenting and implementing marketing strategy to advance organizational goals.