Past Projects

Explore a curated collection of past work, where material process meets ecological intent. Each project reflects a commitment to slowness, land stewardship, and thoughtful storytelling..

Mixed media art piece combining wood, metal, and painted elements with a wooden frame and metal bullets.
A mixed-media art sculpture resembling a rifle, made from various wood pieces, metal, and other materials, with a wooden handle and multiple small metallic parts, set against a plain background.

Where The Light Enters
Wood, Fragmented Bark, Spent Shell Castings, Epoxy

2026

Two red books titled 'Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants', numbered 1 and 2, standing upright on a silver-colored, textured decorative holder against a plain background.
A metallic sculpture of intertwined hands with a textured surface, placed against a red cloth background.

2026

Ut Supra, Sic Infra
Cast Aluminum, Cast Iron, Botanical Texts

A woven wall hanging with a wooden frame, featuring various textures and colors of yarn and fabric, including shades of purple, pink, orange, and green, supported by a horizontal wooden stick.
Close-up view of colorful spun wool yarns on a woven basket with wooden background

Vessel and Verdure
Hand-built wooden frame and woven textile suspended on foraged bark

2026

Smiling woman in a wheelchair wearing a floral skirt, white tank top, floral crown, and jewelry in an art gallery with framed artwork on the wall.
An open, small art book with abstract colorful splatter designs on its pages, standing upright on a white surface against a light purple background.

2026

The Witness, Book Project
Hand-Bound Artist Book

Artist Bio

Ally Scherer is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Norman, Oklahoma, who explores the intersections of human structures and natural ecosystems through metal, wood, and fiber arts. Her work is rooted in agrarian life, disability, neurodivergence, and survival after trauma. A disabled veteran, she weaves visual art, memoir, poetry, and earth-centered narratives in her creative practice to explore belonging, resilience, and the reclamation of self beyond systems of harm.

Drawing from lived experience, Scherer’s work resists productivity-driven definitions of worth and instead honors slowness, embodiment, and relationship with land. Her practice is deeply informed by health science, communication, and storytelling, bridging personal narrative with broader cultural questions of care, power, and repair.