Artist: Emily Settles | Location: Asheville, NC
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Artist: Emily Settles | Location: Asheville, NC
Asheville, NC
Emily Settles is based in Asheville, North Caroline. Before college, she worked as an intern at the Jairo-Prado art studio and had her work displayed in a community garden (Nashville, TN 2018). Additionally, she was exhibited in a youth show in the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, TN (2018). She began working towards her BFA in painting in 2021 at the University of Asheville, North Carolina, and expects to graduate in 2025. Post graduation, she plans to attain her masters in Art Therapy, using her artistic practice to facilitate healing while maintaining a rigorous studio practice. She formally works in oil paint but explores many other mediums. Conceptually, her work encompasses ideas of struggles with the self, gender and womanhood, sexual violence, and social injustice. She uses her art to help the viewer empathize with the issues she cares about and as a tool to ground herself and process the world around her.