Each year, students in Moore's MFA program exhibit work that has grown out of their first year with influences drawn from their personal research and experience moving through the program’s curriculum. Courses in material research have exposed them to a wide range of making, practical classes have taken them into the city’s cultural offerings and opened up how artists organize, and seminars in art history and ethics have posed questions and provided context for their explorations moving forward.
From September 26 – October 3, The Galleries presents the work of Emily Elliott. Elliott is a second-year MFA student in the Socially Engaged Art program at Moore. She is a passionate and driven art educator with 19+ years of experience. She has taught all levels, from infant to adult, in many subject areas. As an artist, she is skilled in many mediums, but her focus is on fiber art and drawing. As an art educator, she works to help students to develop the visual vocabulary to navigate in the modern world and to relate to the past. Her focus in the SEA program at Moore has been teaching as an artistic practice and how that practice can manifest in a classroom setting.
IMAGE: Emily Elliott, Getting to Know Montgomery County, PA, 2019, rug, yarn, fabric transfer, paint, paint pens and marker. Courtesy of the artist.
