Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16th from 5 to 8 pm

Please join us for the next exhibit, "Human", works by Emily Steinberg and Emily Potts.  Using a variety of media, both Artists present ideas about vlunerability and resilience and human frailty and strength in playful, often humorous, honest ways while incorporating texture and beauty.   The opening reception will take place on Saturday May 16th, from 5 to 8 pm.  Artists will speak about their work at the opening reception.  

Emily Steinberg is a visual artist and graphic memoirist whose work bridges painting and autobiographical narrative.

Trained at the University of Pennsylvania (MFA, BFA, and BA), her practice explores memory, illness, history, identity, and the emotional textures of everyday life through both traditional and comic-based forms.

Her paintings and narrative works have been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and internationally. Her visual narratives have appeared in major publications including The New Yorker.

Steinberg’s visual narrative work is closely associated with the field of graphic medicine, contributing to award-winning projects including Menopause: A Comic Treatment, which received an Eisner Award. She lives just outside Philadelphia.

Emily Potts is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice gives material form to invisible and chronic conditions. Emily’s research focuses on the relationship between the brain, the mind, and the body in connection to function and disruption of internal and external processes.

Her work has been exhibited at notable institutions regionally and nationally such as New York Academy of Art New York, NY, Mid-South Sculpture Alliance’s Confab 2023 at the University of Oklahoma School of the Visual Arts, Norman, OK, the SAA Visual Arts Center, Springfield, IL, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights IL, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA and LHUCA, Lubbock, TX.

Emily graduated with her MFA in Sculpture in the Spring of 2022 from the University of North Texas in Denton, TX. Emily now lives in Howell, MI and works in East Lansing, MI. She teaches at Michigan State University as a Fixed-Term Assistant Professor in Foundations.