About Us
Haylee Ebersole
Co-Founder, Educational Director, Teaching Artist, Master Printmaker
Haylee is one half of the creative force behind Meshwork Press, where she wears many hats as founder, printer, production manager and educational director. Driven by a deep passion for community and collaboration, Haylee has spent the last seven years helping young people tap into their potential, spark positive change in their communities, and envision the creative lives they wish to lead. Through free entrepreneurship programs and a close partnership with the Braddock Youth Project, she provides art, design, and work training for underserved high schoolers in her neighborhood.
As an educator with years of experience, Haylee has shared her love for drawing, mixed media, and printmaking with students at Carnegie Mellon University, Seton Hill University, and Carlow University. She's also an accomplished artist with an MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University, showcasing her work at galleries and museums across the country, including the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, the Center for Visual Art, Blue Star Contemporary, SPACE Gallery, and Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery.
You can find Haylee on LinkedIn and check out her work at hayleeebersole.com.
Kyrie Bushaw
Co-Founder, Project Coordinator, Designer, Communications Manager
As co-founder of Meshwork Press, Kyrie spends her time between marketing, event planning, running communications for hundreds of wholesale and retail buyers, and designing everything from systems that make the studio run more efficiently to digital fliers for their next market, pop-up or sale. She has spent over a decade working in the intersection of small business, design and communication helping to grow the visibility of dynamic businesses and brands and the hardworking, inspiring people behind them.
Meshwork Press, a business that both runs day-to-day operations and nurtures the creative spirit of it’s community, was born out of Kyrie’s desire to inspire the upcoming generation because she believes the future will need creative thinkers, system designers and problem solvers from all walks of life to build the future we want.
In addition to building out a wholesale line of over 200 items available in 400+ retail locations around the world, Kyrie has used Meshwork’s infrastructure to build mentor/mentee relationships with local high schoolers, build and teach foundational design and branding curriculum and give creative young people the chance to tour the small business/maker ecosystem.