ALONE TOGETHER (VIEWS FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE POOL SOLO SHOW AT DAVID KLEIN GALLERY. FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 27, 2021. GALLERY HOURS: TUES - SAT 11AM - 5:30PM 163 TOWNSEND ST, BIRMINGHAM, MI 48009 or check it out online 24-7

Date: Wednesday, January 13th, 2021 7:00-8:30 PM. In conjunction with the New Moon in Capricorn please join a conversation with artists and tarot card designers Bobby Abate and Emmy Bright as they interpret Raúl de Nieves’ exhibition Eternal Return & the Obsidian Heart through the frameworks of the tarot. Registration |link to more info registration|here|

November 5-7th, 2020 (Thursday-Saturday) 5pm-7pm NORA Detriot is hosting 3 evenings of live in person socially distanced totally pleasant readings from MORE STUPIDS. Come join me in my new pop-up-temporary-delightful-streamer lined office at the magical Nora Detroit! 4240 Cass Ave Ste 109, Detroit, MI 48201

Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut. 10/28/20-11/16/20.Silk Flowers A public art exhibition of artist made yard signs is taking place in vacant garden beds along the Fairfield Way walking path on the University of Connecticut’s Storrs Campus. Curated by Luke Seward. Article Here

Slide lecture variation on More Stupids 10/22/2020 11:30 AM. On Zoom- perfomances Oct 21-24th, 2020. Studio Angelico, Klemm Gallery, Siena Heights University. Exhibition info here. Curated by Jess Allie, Richard Haley, Trisha Holt and Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan

Printed Matter hosted my book release and a demo for More Stupids So happy to share this boxy tarot-esque book / deck set with everybody! You can order if directly from 3 Hole Press or from your local book shoppe!

Interview with Michelle Perron as part of her talk show, "15 Minutes" Hosted by College for Creative Studies Center for Exhibitions and Public Programs

www.Standfest, Ryan. “Emmy Bright.” Detroit Art Review, 13 Oct. 2019

I'm so excited to be heading back East and to Maine to teach at Haystack this summer!

Visual Art Center of Richmond hosted our exhibition with Lauren Ross as the curator. Thanks Jason Sudack, for this wonderful video!

OTHER NATURE on view at Simone DeSousa's EDITION through September 9.

I am thrilled to share the news that I will be one of the new Artists in Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art . Cooper and I will head up the Print Media Department.

"The Space in the Middle" by Ashley Hawkins for Look See Magazine. Richmond, VA. 2018.

I'm started making an e-newsletter and you can read or sign up here:
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Frank Redner's review in Big Red and Shiny. FEELING FEELING was a collaborative exhibition by Emmy Bright and J.R. Uretsky during the fall of 2017 at the Distillery Gallery in Boston, MA.

Teaching this summer with E.E. Ikeler at Ox-Bow School of Art this summer between June 18-July 1, 2017. Our class is called "Abstract Strategies"

Delighted to be going to Maine to participate in the Haystack Open Studio Residency

I will be performing this weekend at Power of the Press Fest developed and hosted by Signal Return. Shed 5 in Eastern Market.

I'll be reading alongside the luminous and lovely Anne Elizabeth Moore and Matt Fogerty at the innaugural Monthly reading series. Please see here for more info RSVP's will receive the address.

October, spending the month making prints and playing with postit notes at Vermont Studio Center.

Sarah Rose Sharp came by to check out the show Why Don't You Want This? at David Klein Gallery, Detroit and wrote a lovely and thoughtful review about intersections of gender and feelings. She also came in for a Stupid Tarot reading later in the week. Check out infinitemiledetroit.com/On_Critical_Syn… her reflective piece on overwhelm and criticism in Infinite Mile|.

During October 2016, Ditch Projects is hosting my solo show curated by Jovencio de la Paz. Documentation of the show can be seen here ditchprojects.com/index.php?/ongoing/em…|be found here|

These prints and drawings vacillate between dark humor and reflective criticism of human interaction and interrelation. Often taking the forms of diagrams, sketches, or ad hoc doodles, these images trace out both formal spaces through line and volume, but also frame social, psychic, emotional, or interpersonal spaces. As an ongoing accounting of an inner dialogue, Emmy Bright's work resist conclusion or summation. Rather, like a constellation of aggregate and fleeting moments, the works spread across the gallery to form surprise connections and unexpected narrative twists. - Jovencio de la Paz, Curator

Ditch Projects

Solo exhibition "Why Don't You Want This?" opens on Saturday 9.17.16 at David Klein Gallery's Contemporary Space at 1520 Washington Blvd. Detroit from 6-8 PM.

White Feelings curated by Albert Stabler. Happy to have work in this show

April 28th, 8PM, Archer Ballroom. SEX HABITS is the second event of In/habit roving art series curated by Ladida & Salmon and it is taking the form of a party, a non-linear event where tracks will be interrupted by performances and videos, a place to take a look at the work of print makers and other visual artists, leather work, photography, maybe you'll wanna take something home with ya. A place for brains and haptics to be stimulated: an erotic healing station, a bondage workshop, a peep show booth about sexuality and cinema, not quite impromptu readings and other interventions.

Opening December, 4 5PM-8PM through March 2nd at Artspace New Haven. Curated by J.R. Uretsky. Some nice reviews of the show here and
|http://www.yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/12/11/wigging-out-in-hello-world/ | also here |

September 17, 2015 David Klein Gallery opened a new contemporary art space in Detroit and I am one of the artists showing work in the inaugural group show

I'll be spending 13 weeks this summer making work, helping out and swimming in the lake in Saugatuck Michigan at the Ox-bow School of Art as a part of their Fellowship Program. Looking forward to meeting and working alongside many wonderful folks this summer!

Excited to be showing two pieces in Bloomington, IN as part of the Kinsey Institute's Annual Art Show Opening reception on May 15 and runs through July 11th.

Since 1947, |http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/index.htmlThe Kinsey Institute| has promoted interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction. Artworks in this exhibition explore sex, gender, sexuality, eroticism, reproduction, romantic relationships, the politics of sex and gender, and the human figure.

Showing work as part of a group show curated by the amazing Liz Cohen. May 1 - May 9 at David Klein Gallery in Birmingham, MI.

Other Another could be understood as a directive, a recognition, even a warning. The two words nod toward the potential for intimacy and solidarity amongst individuals at the same time that they remind us of the existential fact that we are discreet entities. Other Another brings together the works of artists that address the negotiation of the individual within the group. With varying modes of aesthetic communication and attitudes, the artists in Other Another explore loss, desire and dissent.

Printeresting did a lovely write up of the Queer Communities in Print Portfolio curated by Corinne Teed and Jamie Knight. Awesome to participate in this project and looking forward to seeing all the prints in one place!

So psyched to have work in this show with such awesome other artists including J.R. Uretsky, Abigail Anne Newbold and Sandrine Schaffer at the stellar Lincoln Arts Project. The show is on view through April 26. A pretty great article with lots of embedded video is here from the Boston Hassle! lots of great stuff including Jeremy Otters interviewing the interviewer!

Artist Lab for ONE ROOM in Romantic Logic
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words
–Roland Barthes.
We will find our own romantic logic in the language and images of others. We will source love songs and magazines and match-make these scraps into new personal narratives.

Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture
Through lectures and dialogue, readings and lots of hands-on making, this course examines the rhetorical, formal, and visual underpinnings of graphic design.

All About the Why
This class is for artists across disciplines who want to deepen their understanding of the wellsprings of their work. Through a semester long series of riddles and explorations, using images, and playing with materials different from, but parallel to, our customary ones, we will investigate what makes our work uniquely ours. We will practice collaborative naming and subverting our usual practices to both discover and transmute our practice: honing, expanding, or shifting it to new focal points. Adopted and adapted from Christina Schmigel, Senior Jedi.

Process Gallery development, design and installation
Andrew Oesch and I designed three educational gallery spaces to help visitors understand the Work/Out show an outdoor exhibition on social practices, gardening, and social betterment. Designed, built interactive displays, a printed WorkOut make your own 'zine, wrote drawing prompts, reflection invitations, and wall text.

I am facilitating a workshop series at Brown University's Center for Public Humanities called All About the Why. This experience is for practitioners across mediums, roles, and institutions who want to deepen their understanding of the wellsprings of their work. Through a series of riddles and explorations, using images, maps, and playing with materials different from, but parallel to, our customary ones, we will investigate what makes our work uniquely ours. In doing so, we will explore possibilities for opening up future work, and develop language to help us connect with future collaborators, partners, and places. This series is based on a most amazing experience I had at Penland with Jedi Master Christina Shmigel and a whole bunch of Jr. Jedis. I am ever greatful for those folks and very excited to extend this work to Providence in March

I have one of my favorite pieces in the RISD Faculty Biennial. Faculty from all departments across the school are participating, and I can't wait to see what everyone has been working on. The opening is on Thursday Feb. 21 from 6-8pm in the Chase gallery at the RISD Museum and it runs through March 17, 2013.

I'm so psyched teaching a class called Workshops in Art Education at City College New York again Spring 2013.

For the 2012-2013, I get to work with graduate students enrolled in RISD's Teaching + Learning in Art + Design education program. I taught Critical Investigations in Arts Learning, a hybrid class involving philosophies of art, education and personal practices. I also get to work with amazing students like Alison Rutsch on her research and screen printing project around children's visionary imagination and critiques of schooling, and I am helping Nicole VanSlyke on her documentary around access to digital arts, social justice, and community programs. I will post updates on awesome work as it unfolds!

I made a double sided print for THIS IS AN EMERGENCY, a print portfolio which focuses on reproductive rights and gender justice. The opening show in Providence was on August 9, 2012. Click here learn about the project and read Stern's Statement of Purpose. and here to see the prints and essays in the portfolio. Artists include several members of Justseeds Cooperative including: Melanie Cervantes, Thea Gahr, Bec Young, Favianna Rodriguez, Mary Tremonte, Molly Fair, and Meredith Stern. Also participating are: Ian Cozzens of Secret Door Projects, Kristina Brown, Delia Kovac, Emmy Bright, Lois Harada, and Katrina Avocado.

I will be showing a big piece diagramming 257 questions - at the opening for the Reanimation Library and the "Living with Data" show at 186 Carpenter st on March 3. Jay Zehngebot and Landfill Quarterly also sharing their work! I'm also one of the artists who was invited to "mine the collection" and come up with some work for the closing show at the end of April. More updates soon! Looking forward to spending March in the library.

I've got a piece in the Valentine'd Show at Craftland! Lots of other awesome, subversive, romantic, and sentimental works up and for sale now through March 3rd. Nice review of the "Heart felt" show here!.

The Providence Comics Consortium just published the first anthology!! As A Guy is Fighting a Monster out of Nowhere So psyched. This book is a brick of kid comics art and grown artists jamming with the kids' characters. I have 2 pieces in there - the first is the Taxonomy of Precious Objects and the second is a comic called Jack: His Village, The Ombo Group. Awesome job everyone!

Once a week during the fall of 2011, I got to teach with a wonderful group of students at City College New York. Each week, my students documented our class. Here are some of their awesome projects!

I was one of the field interviewers for Providence and Boston for this project. You can download the report here!

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