Emily Joyce is a vitreous enamelist, sculptor, and art studio instructor from Cleveland, Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Enameling from The Cleveland Institute of Art and earned a Master in Arts Education from Case Western Reserve University. Her work is a thoughtful balance of playfulness and humor from experience as an art teacher and as a student. 

The school experience has been the central focus of her life for many years. As a teacher, sitting in meetings reliving the years spent as a student who struggled to pay attention. Emily finds true joy in the exploration of materials and processes in her home studio and in her classroom.

Emily’s work sparks nostalgia and humor in the viewer that is familiar and reminiscent. Her sculptural keepsakes and wearable art mimic objects and experiences enjoyed during childhood. Experiences like a long school bus ride, a sick day, checking out a library book, a bad day on the playground, or a chicken pox discovered while sitting on the rug in Kindergarten. These small moments have become essential in the timeline of her life and her work provides a different and humorous look into those moments.

In a world of AI, lasers, and CNC machines, Emily purposefully maintains a one-woman studio where every piece created is made by hand without assistants or production techniques. At times, forms may be repeated, only to create them with new techniques or materials. Each piece is truly one of a kind and created with tools of the trade in her basement studio.