ABOUT

Emily is an artist and curator based in Bloomington, Indiana, whose practice makes the invisible labor of care materially present. The recipient of the 2025 DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award, she holds an MFA and MA from Indiana University and a BA from Cornell University.

Working across sculpture, social practice, archival collaboration, and installation, she draws on feminist economics, maintenance theory, and the daily arithmetic of caregiving to surface what sustained living actually costs.

Her sculptural series Load-Bearing uses playground equipment structures and silk skins to hold and expose the physical logic of support, what bears weight, what gives, and what the body absorbs when care work goes unrecognized. The Pregnant Image, a collaboration with Gloria Manzanares, activates archival pregnancy photographs through charcoal drawing, treating the historical body as both document and ethical site.

Across projects, Emily returns to the same questions: who does the work that keeps things running, who accounts for it, and what would it look like if we did.

She lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana.