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2/15/10-3/15/10 I’ll be at Jentel Artist Residency working on mixed media collage paintings.
11/20/09 -1/15/10 the nurse and the police officer, a sound and sculpture installation, showing at Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio. opening reception 11/20/09 6-9 pm.
9/11/09 opening of reMARKable at Indigo Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
9/05/09 opening of Northern Ohio Clay Exhibition at Artseen, Vermillion, Ohio
7/3 - 8/8/2009 I’ll be part of 19 at Asterisk Gallery in Tremont, Ohio.
homescape
February 18 - March 13, 2011
Opening: Friday, February 18, 6pm -9pm
15605 Waterloo Road
Cleveland, OH 44110
Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas, recently awarded me the Hedy and Michael Fawcett Prize for Visual Arts.
Check out the new website for Making Money the Harder Way, which we will be performing again on June 21, 2013 in Cleveland.
Kolodziej and Emery team up at Busta Gallery in Cleveland with shows you "feel" with your eyes
By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer
To read more about the William Busta Gallery in Steve Litt’s article in The Plain Dealer and listen to Bill Busta talking with Dee Perry on Sound of Applause.
Click here to download the brochure.
On September 14, 2014 I fly to Alaska to start a 2 month residency in Homer through the Rasmuson Foundation.
I’ll be drawing and printing and working on a community postcard project.
January 9 - February 6, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, January 9, 7-9pm
Featuring:
Natale Adgnot, Dara Alter, Elizabeth Emery,
Katrina Majkut, Katie Marshall, Lisa McCutcheon,
Rebecca Reeves, Allie Rex, Justin Webb and
Bridgette Zou
MATERIALS GIRL: Emery, whose first job after college was as a fabric designer, has had a fascination with texture and color from an early age. "My mother would hate shopping with me because I would just walk around the store touching all the clothes."
I was selected as one of Cleveland Magazine’s Most Interesting People 2015. Below is a quote from the article about my New York City days as a fabric designer. Read the full article to find out other interesting tidbits about me.
by Josh Usami, SCENE
At Youngstown State University my show, Ambient Time, will be up through April 3rd, 2015 at the Judith Rae Solomon Gallery . On April 1st they’ve invited me to do a demo and artist talk.
I am extremely honored to be a recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. They have generously offered me help in many ways since I first arrived in Cleveland. Thank you.
In June 2015, I will assist Michelle Illuminato in her Lost & Found Factory at Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Arts Festival.
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The ‘objects’, and subjects, of the artworks are layered with meaning and significance. Artists, and viewers, identify with them based on their own personal history and narrative. We all have a degree of ‘preconception’ when we make, and observe, artwork. The most pleasing artworks are those that align with our own personal perspectives. However, to my mind, the most compelling artworks are those that challenge our ‘preconceptions’; those that expose our prejudices.” Stephanie Craig, curator
Mary Ceruti, the Executive Director of Sculpture Center in Long Island City, NY, will visit my studio as part of Cleveland MOCA’s Nesnadny + Schwartz Visiting Curators Program.
Three of my new sculptures will be shown at the The Sculpture Center’s After the Pedestal Show. The opening reception will be Friday, June 11 from 5:30-8pm.
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“Speaking of which, when you make your way to Some Time Gallery to see Seeds of Colonialism--Darice Polo's exhibit of posters, silkscreened in collaboration with Ping Pong Press--note that she was a Creative Workforce Fellow in the most recent class, in 2016.” CAN Journal, January 2017
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