Lives and works in northern virginia / Washington DC
EDUCATION
2019 MFA Visual Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2013 BS summa cum laude, Printmaking, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN
2011 Gordon College in Orvieto, Italy (semester abroad)
AWARDS
2018-2019 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Graduate Fellowship
2018-2019 Victoria N. Salmon Award for Outstanding Graduate Student, GMU College of Visual & Performing Arts
RESIDENCIES
2020-2024 Resident Artist at Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA
2018 American University MFA Studio Berlin at GlogauAIR Art Residency, Berlin, Germany
SOLO & TWO PERSON* EXHIBITIONS
2026 Of Time and Tenderness: Ali Wunder & Emily Fussner*, Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah University, Mechanicsburg, PA
2022 Mending Time: Mending Time: Emily Fussner & Ryan McCoy*, Cody Gallery, Marymount University, Arlington VA
2021 A Window to Europe: Through Literature and Art*, Plain Sight DC & the EU National Institutes of Culture, Washington, DC (selected group of artists, two artists exhibiting at a time at Plain Sight DC)
2021 Even a Parking Lot is Beautiful at Dawn, Wyatt Resident Artists Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington VA
2019 Casting/s, Williams Gallery & 1920 Gallery, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN
2019 In Light of—, IA&A at Hillyer, Washington, DC
2019 eternity fleeting, MFA Thesis Exhibition, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2018 The Shape of Light, GMU Art Lab, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton VA
2017 Absence Transformed, GMU Art Lab, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton VA
2017 FILL, Metro Micro Gallery, Arlington, VA
SIte specific public art commissions
2025 Shadow Vessel Series, for Metro Art-in-Transit, Crystal City Metro Station, Arlington, VA
2022 Here we consider, Museum of Contemporary art Arlington, Arlington, VA
2021 For the alley, Georgetown GLOW, Washington, DC (curated by Deirdre Ehlen MacWilliams)
2018 What Delineates, Arts in Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Biennial: Absence & Presence, Washington, DC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Women Artists of the DMV, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington DC (curated by Lenny Campello)
2025 Held Together: Fragility & Endurance in Art (online exhibition), Visionary Collective (curated by Sergio Gomez)
2025 Required Reading, Workhouse Arts center, Lorton, VA (curated by Michele Montalbano)
2024 Sculpture NOW, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA (juried by Nancy Sausser)
2024 Wish You Were Here, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA (curated by Amanda Jirón-Murphy)
2024 Chiostro, Gordon faculty exhibition, Gio | Gallery in Orvieto, Orvieto, Italy
2023 Hot Goss, Museum of Contemporary art Arlington, Arlington, VA (curated by Amanda Jirón-Murphy)
2021 From Dusk Til’ Dawn, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD (curated by Spencer Dormitzer)
2021 Those Spaces Between, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA (juried by Nikki Brugnoli)
2021 On Paper: Printmaking, Book Arts & Beyond, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD (juried)
2020 Sculpture NOW, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA (curated by Nancy Sausser)
2020 The Velocity of a Page, Tephra ICA, exhibition online due to COVID-19 (curated by Christopher Kardambikis)
2019 Call & Response: Transmogrify, Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2019 RISE 2019: Hillyer Newly Selected Artists, IA&A at Hillyer, Washington, DC
2018 ShadowLands: 3D Adventures in Light and Space, Washington Sculptors Group, American Center for Physics, College Park, MD (curated by Sarah Tanguy)
2018 Exempla, Gordon in Orvieto Alumni Exhibition, Gordon College, Wenham, MA
2018 VMFA: Futures, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA (curated by Jaynelle Hazard)
2018 Absence & Presence, Arts in Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Biennial, Washington, DC (curated by Helen Frederick and Peter Winant)
2017 Aftermath: Cycles of Rebuilding, George Mason University MFA exhibition, NOVA Community College Fine Art Gallery, Alexandria, VA
2017 Alumni Show, 1920 Gallery, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN
2017 The Nonesuch Art of Paper Awards, Main & Station, Parrsboro, Nova Scotia (juried, catalogue)
2017 University Combine, Capital One, Richmond, VA (curated by Francis Thompson)
2016 W.H.A.T. Now: Women/Healing/Art/Transformation, Clifford Chance, Washington, DC
2013 PaperWorks, Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY (juried)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 Workshop Instructor, Cyanotypes, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington
2021 Adjunct Professor, Gordon College in Orvieto, Italy (Sculpture Studio, Fall 2021)
2021 Instructor, Paper Art Magic (Ages 5-7), Arlington Arts Center (now MoCA Arlington)
2021 Adjunct Professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (Zines & Self-Publishing, Spring 2021)
2020 Adjunct Professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (Digital Printmaking, Spring 2020)
2019 Workshop Instructor, Cyanotypes, IA&A Hillyer, Washington DC
2018 Graduate Lecturer, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (Paper, Print, Book, [instructor of record], Spring 2018)
2018 Teaching Assistant, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (Senior Project, Spring 2018)
2017 Graduate Lecturer, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (Printmaking I, [instructor of record], Fall 2017)
2017 Workshop Instructor, Beginning Silkscreen Printing, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA
2017 Workshop Instructor, “Make Your Own Vessel,” Smith Center for Healing & the Arts, Washington, DC
2017 Workshop Instructor, Papermaking, Paper Print & Book summer course, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2017 Workshop Instructor, Papermaking, “Re-Imagining Community” (high school students), George Mason University
2017 Teaching Assistant, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (Sculpture I, Spring 2017)
2013 Teaching Assistant, Gordon College in Orvieto, Italy (studio classes for Fall Semester, 2013)
ARTS ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE
2019—2025 Event Manager, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
2018—2019 Graduate Professional Assistant, Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2014—2016 Alchemical Vessels Exhibition + Benefit Coordinator, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, DC
Curatorial EXPERIENCE
2025 Hits Different: 5 Under 35, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD
2025 Hickok Cole Art Night 2025,* Washington, DC
2025 Washington Project for the Arts Collectors’ Night 2025 Art Auction,* Washington, DC and on Artsy
2024 Hickok Cole Art Night 2024,* Washington, DC
2024 Washington Project for the Arts Collectors’ Night 2024 Art Auction,* Washington, DC and on Artsy
2023 Washington Project for the Arts Collectors’ Night 2023 Art Auction,* Washington, DC and on Artsy
2019 J Carrier: Elementary Calculus, Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2019 It’s Personal: Zines & Artist Books, Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2018 [Land]scape, Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2017 Spencer Dormitzer: You Don’t need to.. If you have to…, Metro Micro Gallery, Arlington, VA
* within my work as Events Manager with WPA: led the artist and artwork selection (90-110 artists each event, 150-220 artworks) and curated exhibition layout