Emily Weihing is an artist whose work draws on quotidian domestic materials and motifs to trigger memory, contemplation, and receptivity. Weihing earned her MFA in Printmaking from Indiana University (Bloomington) and her BA in Printmaking and Environmental Science & Policy from Smith College in Northampton, MA. She was Michigan City’s first featured artist in their inaugural open air studio event, Art/Watch, and was artist-in-residence at Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence, MA. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally, including at the Four Rivers Print Biennial, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, In Graafika Festival in Estonia, El Minia University in Cairo, and the Lotus World Music & Arts Festival in Bloomington, IN. She lives in the boundlessly beautiful Maine Lakes Region with her husband, Jeff, and animal friend menagerie.
The ongoing thread behind my work is the desire to create experiences that foster a sense of gentleness and connection in response to the increasing hardness and alienation of contemporary society. I am interested in reconnecting with the “more-than-human” and reigniting a sense of wonder in and appreciation for the physical reality we inhabit.
The ongoing thread behind my work is the desire to create experiences that foster a sense of gentleness and connection in response to the increasing hardness and alienation of contemporary society. I am interested in reconnecting with the “more-than-human” and reigniting a sense of wonder in and appreciation for the physical reality we inhabit.