About
photo by Morganeshots
EMILY BAKER
Emily Baker (b.1989) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Atlanta, Georgia. She was born in Grass Valley, California and received her BFA in Interior Design from California State University, Chico. She received her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2016.
She taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara in The College of Creative Studies as the Teaching Fellow and in the Art Department, and at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria and Lompoc, CA. She then worked as a Full Time Lecturer and Sculpture Area Coordinator at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey.
Emily has shown her work nationally and internationally. Residencies include Salem Art Works (Salem, NY), The Vermont Studio (Johnson, VT), The Steel Yard (Providence, RI) and The Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM) during their 2020 Labor theme.
She was awarded an exploratory research grant at the Hagley Museum to examine DuPont’s contribution to the textile industry, specifically their role in women’s fashion during the rebirth of nylon’s image post-WWII. She presented her work at the International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art in Berlin, Germany.
She now is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.