Emily is a PhD candidate in Art & Architectural History studying with Dr. Sarah Betzer. Emily’s research focuses on late nineteenth-century French sculpture, the effects of industrial and technological development on artistic technique, and statues made out of materials like pâte de verre, snow, and wool powder. The title of her doctoral dissertation is: "Carving pictures, casting color, and painting with glass: Sculpting in the age of statuemania." Emily's work has been published in the magazine Material Intelligence and the journal Thresholds.  

 

She received her BA in studio arts from Princeton University, worked as a studio assistant for New York-based sculptor Martha Friedman and studied at Penland School of Craft, all of which inform her understanding of material histories from an embodied perspective. She received her MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art at the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts, where the subject of her qualifying paper was: "Reverse Pygmalions: Plaster in Édouard Dantan's Atelier Paintings."