Addison de Lisle earned his BFA from the Maine College of Art in 2011 and received his MFA from SIU Carbondale in 2018. He has also attended workshops and residencies around the country, and a fellowship at the Fondation de Coubertin, France. He has taught at the Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Appalachian Center for Craft, John C. Campbell Folk School, the Center for Metal Arts, and the American College of the Building Arts. He maintains a practice on Deer Isle, Maine.