Emily Chase

Emily is an artist, educator and therapist with over 18 years of experience witnessing the life-changing power of the arts for individuals and communities. Throughout her career, she has focused on increasing access to the arts for those who have been historically denied, and for those whose access to creative expression holds urgent potential for themselves and society.

Emily began her career as a special education teacher of art and other subjects to students with emotional impairments, autism, and learning disabilities in New York City, where she realized the inextricable link between artistic creation and a human’s sense of self, both for the students and for herself. She has worked to leverage the potential of artistic expression to create and strengthen relationships between individuals and across communities since that time.

Emily’s creative practice involves visually exploring multilayered memories through the physical and cognitive experiences of mixed media manipulation and visual journaling during the few minutes of freedom that exist in between being a mother, spouse, therapist, and human who needs sleep. Some day she would like to garden.