About
Emily (she/her) is an artist, arts educator, facilitator and administrator with over 15 years of experience witnessing the life-changing power of the arts for individuals and communities. Throughout her career, she has focused on increasing access to the arts for those who have been historically denied, and for those whose access to creative expression holds urgent potential for themselves and society.
Emily began her career as a middle school special education teacher of art and other subjects to students with emotional impairments, Autism, and learning disabilities in New York City public schools as a New York City Teaching Fellow. This was where she first saw the inextricable link between artistic creation and a human’s sense of self. For 9 years Emily managed creative arts programming for adults and teens with disabilities, mental health diagnoses, and other barriers to employment at a vocational rehabilitation organization in Lansing, MI, where she leveraged the potential of artistic expression to create and strengthen relationships between individuals and across communities.
Emily’s creative practice involves visually exploring multilayered memories through the physical and cognitive experiences of mixed media manipulation and journaling during the few minutes of freedom that exist in between being a mother, spouse, student and human who needs sleep. Some day she would like to garden.
