Emily Counts
Artist in Residence
Emily Counts currently lives and works in Tacoma, WA. She creates mixed-media sculptures and installations that engage with craft traditions while exploring femininity, matriarchal identity, memory, and nature. When integrating ceramics with colored light or translucent glass and plastics, she seeks to merge nostalgia and historical aesthetics with a futuristic sensibility. Her surreal and commanding female figures explore tender power and the tension between visibility and vulnerability.Her work has been exhibited in institutions including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Torrance Art Museum in California, Oregon Contemporary in Portland, OR, and in Washington at the Museum of Museums, the Bellevue Arts Museum, and the Museum of Northwest Art. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Tacoma Art Museum.
