Biografia
Chloë Feldman Emison has shown her drawings and animations widely in the United States and Europe, while working also as an illustrator. She works in pen and ink, sometimes with wash, or watercolor and inks (sometimes metallic), or art marker or watercolor pencil, sometimes with gold leaf, sometimes with coffee or glue or glass glitter. She studied fine art at Williams College (Massachusetts) and
at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, and animation at Forkbeard Fantasy in Devon. She 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. In 2013 she taught animation at the Eagle Hill School in Hardwick, Massachusetts. She was named the Mixed Media Artist of the Year for 2009 at the Cambridge Art Association, won 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 (2014), and received first prize in the Editorial category at the Phillustration exhibition at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, Nov.~2015. She was recently was selected for the 4th International Emerging Artist Award, the exhibition for which was held in Brussels (May-July, 2016). She
is collaborating with the Elements Contemporary Ballet company in Chicago on the design of a new ballet about Atlantis. Her work has been featured in The State of Art: Representational and Abstract, II (UK) and Artists to Look Out For, and her illustrations have appeared in various literary magazines (Graze, Kansas City Voices, Salt Hill Journal, Palaver). She grew up in New Hampshire and currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
