Emily L Ginsburg

Emily Ginsburg was born in New York, New York. She received her BA in Art History from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1986 and an MFA in Printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1991.

Ginsburg’s conceptually driven work maps the affective impact of everyday life through diverse media. Her research involves explorations into human behavioral patterns and how meaning is perpetually entangled with mass media platforms, embodiment, and daily rituals. These works have been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally as well as commissioned for public art projects at Seattle City Light, Seattle, Washington, Portland State University and Cyan/Pdx in Portland, Oregon. Recent solo exhibitions include the critically reviewed “Metabolic”, at SE Cooper Contemporary and a site-specific installation in Siena, Italy.

She has been awarded various project grants through the Regional Arts and Culture Council, and residencies at Siena Art Institute, Haystack, Vermont Studio Center, and SACI in Florence. Her work was published in: DATA FLOW, THE MAP AS ART and projects have been reviewed in Artillery Magazine, Art and About PDX, Ceramics Now, Oregon Arts Watch, The Portland Mercury, Art Papers, Art US, and The 22 Magazine amongst others.

Ginsburg is currently Professor, and Chair of Intermedia and Chair of Video and Sound, at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Willamette University, in Portland Oregon, and Faculty in the Intermedia, BFA thesis and MFA in Visual Studies Programs respectively.

Over her 33 plus teaching career, she has taught in the Intermedia, Thesis, Foundation, Printmaking and MFA in Visual Studies and MFA in Print Media Programs respectively. She has been Area Chair overseeing multiple BFA programs, Media Arts Chair, Chair of the Printmaking Department, has been instrumental in the evolution of the college’s interdisciplinary program as long time Chair of the Intermedia Department, led the curriculum design and development of the MFA in Visual Studies Program, and continues to foster and collaborate with colleagues around innovative curriculum. Institutional service reflects leadership of the Curriculum Committee, participation in many task forces, search committees, faculty governance, and served as faculty representative to the board of governors. Former students have gone on to vibrant careers as practicing artists, designers, educators, entrepreneurs, non-profit, cultural, and civic leaders.