Installation, textile and work on paper

You will find completed works, work in progress and lots of ephemera from the Emma’s creative process as well as some work for purchase.

Emma Jane Royer is a visual artist who uses the practice and promise of making to find tenderness in ordinary experience. Working across media, Emma regularly employs textiles, photography, printmaking and paper. She has a strong belief in the value and importance of making things by hand. Emma often utilizes time and labor-intensive processes like beading, sewing, knitting and weaving and creates unusual, yet highly specific, data collection and presentation processes. Emma appreciates these as methods of measuring and making visible the accrual or accretion of invisible elements like touch, attention and care.

Emma’s most recent data collection and representation endeavor included tracking, coding and beading the first 11 months of breastfeeding data of her daughter and creating a single beaded strand nearly 500 feet in length with 49,966 beads. This piece was recently exhibited as an installation at Seattle’s Vestibule Gallery and will take on a new form during SPOTLIGHT North.

Emma Jane Royer is a visual artist known for her work in textiles and paper. Emma has been honored with an Artist Trust GAP Award, 4Culture Individual Artist Project Awards, and the Dana and Tori Ann Rust Memorial Fellowship from the Museum of Northwest Art. Her work has been exhibited at numerous institutions including the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, the Bellevue Art Museum and Gallery4Culture in Seattle, WA. Emma has attended residencies at Singla Creative Residency, the Jentel Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center.

Emma’s artwork is held in private and public collections including University of New Mexico Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis Special Collections Library, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, USBC Public Art Collection and John Hancock. Emma earned an MFA from the University of New Mexico, an M.Ed from the University of Washington and a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis.

Please park next door at the Shoreline Free Methodist Church and walk to Emma's studio via her driveway. The driveway is a hill, but you will not need to climb any stairs to reach Emma's studio.