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Emily Leach is an artist based in Massachusetts. She investigates the history of race, perception, and the production of self in the digital age: blackness, bodies, (re)production, growth, and language. Leach studies glass to consider the philosophies and strategies of optics.
Emily's work has been published in New Glass Review 40 (Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY) and Gumbo Magazine (Chicago, IL). She has exhibited at Parent Company (New York, NY), AS220 (Providence, RI), Arts + Literature Laboratory (Madison, WI), Women Made Gallery (Chicago, IL), and more.
Emily currently works as the assistant director of GEEX, the Glass Education Exchange, where she edits and produces an online series of talks by contemporary artists and researchers called GEEX Talks.
Emily holds a BFA in Art (focused in Glass and Sculpture) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She grew up in Stone-Davis Hall, a dormitory on the Wellesley College campus. She liked using the PA system, opening the accordion-style gates on the elevators, and peering into the dining hall from the windows only accessible from the tar rooftop.
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