Alisa Carroll is a writer and editor who focuses on art and design, and is the West Coast contributing editor for Veranda. Over the past two decades, she has interviewed and profiled artists, curators, collectors, gallerists, historians, conservators and many others, chronicling their philosophies and practices in essays, articles, and books.
Now in its fourth printing, her book Art House (Assouline, Fall 2016), chronicles the forty-year project of collector Chara Schreyer and designer Gary Hutton to house Schreyer’s collection over 600 modern and contemporary works, tracing conceptual art from its origins in Duchamp to emerging artistic practices.
Alisa is editor in chief of, and a contributor to, In the Making (Fall 2019), a new book of essays and images profiling nearly forty artisans—ceramicists and textile designers, glassblowers and hand printers—leading the 21st-century maker movement.
For the past nine years, she has been editor in chief of the annual HENRY. Previously, as editor in chief of SFC&G, she launched the publication in 2014 and led it for four years, chronicling the creative culture of San Francisco.
Alisa programs and moderates talks on collecting, curating, design, and art practice. She lives in Paris and San Francisco.
