Chloë Feldman Emison

Chloë Feldman Emison has shown her drawings widely in the United States and Britain, while also working as animator and illustrator. She has been drawing since early childhood and had her first solo show at 16. After homeschooling, she studied fine art at Williams College and at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, and animation at Forkbeard Fantasy in Devon. She was a visiting artist at Wasps Studios in Glasgow, and completed residencies at the Contemporary Artists Center in Woodside, N.Y., at The Old School Art House in Iceland, at the Vermont Studio Center, and at Can Serrat, near Barcelona. She taught animation at the Eagle Hill School in Hardwick, Massachusetts. She was named the Mixed Media Artist of the Year for 2009 at the Cambridge Art Association, and won a Spotlight on the Arts Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist in 2010, and a Board of Trustees Award from the Silvermine Art Center in New Canaan, Connecticut (2014). She is collaborating with the Elements Contemporary Ballet company in Chicago on the design of a new ballet based on the story of Atlantis, and her animations have been shown all over the world. Her illustrations have been published in various literary magazines, including Kansas City Voices, Graze Magazine, and Salt Hill Journal. Her work has been featured in The State of Art: Representational and Abstract #2 (UK) and Artists to Look Out For (Starry Night Programs, NM).