Today we’d like to introduce you to Chloe Feldman Emison.
Chloe, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
I’ve been drawing my whole life, but I started showing my drawings in professional galleries around the seacoast NH region when I was 15. I then studied studio art at Williams College, during which I spent a year studying anatomical drawing at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University.
After I graduated I studied animation at Forkbeard Fantasy in Devon. Then I 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.
I also taught animation at the Eagle Hill School in Hardwick, Massachusetts. I have received several awards, including being named the Mixed Media Artist of the Year for 2009 at the Cambridge Art Association, winning a Spotlight on the Arts Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist in 2010, a Board of Trustees Award from the Silvermine Art Center in New Canaan, Connecticut in 2014, and receiving first prize in the Editorial category at the Phillustration exhibition at the Philadelphia Sketch Club in 2015.
I was also named an IEAA laureate in the 4th International Emerging Artist Award, the exhibition for which was held in Brussels in 2016. My illustrations have appeared in various literary magazines including Graze, Kansas City Voices, Salt Hill Journal, and Palaver.
I have worked with writers in both prose and poetry, including Cambridge poet James Foritano, and I have independently published three illustrated books. I have also designed beer cans for Lamplighter Brewing Company and illustrated the libretto for a new ballet based on the story of Atlantis with Chicago based contemporary ballet company, Elements.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
In some ways I feel incredibly lucky, many people have seen and believed in my work and given me incredible opportunities. However, working freelance is always a somewhat uncertain life, you just have to trust that the next commission is going to come along, and be open to anything!
Alright – so let’s talk business. Tell us about Chloe Feldman Emison – what should we know?
I do freelance illustration and art. I’m open to all kinds of commissions, and I’ve worked with ballet companies, breweries, animal shelters, poets, and everything in-between. When I’m not working on commissions I make my own work, which comes purely out of my imagination and has been shown in galleries around the world.
Any shoutouts? Who else deserves credit in this story – who has played a meaningful role?
I wouldn’t be where I am today without my parents, who nurtured my early interest in art by taking me to museums and have been invaluable with practical help scanning, digitizing, and framing my work, all things I am not naturally gifted in.
I’ve also had brilliant teachers, Barbara Takenaga at Williams and Sarah Simblet during the junior year I spent studying at the Ruskin. I’ve also been mentored by wonderful local artists like Shiao-Ping Wang and Brian Chu.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.chloefeldmanemison.com
- Email: cfeldmanemison@gmail.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cfeldmanemison/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chloefeldmanemisonart/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/cfeldmanemison
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