The Art Box - Episode 89 - Barrick Museum of Art - No Doubt Our Favorite Sculptor - Meet Emily Budd - MDM

Emily Budd

Linda and Steve were ever so privileged to sit with Emily at her metal shop @ UNLV for a wide ranging interview on all things art, paleontology, desert trash and Rhyolite. If it wasn't for schedules, parking fines and the need for humans to nourish themselves with food we would likely still be there.  Listen in to a great interview. More about Emily.

Emily is a queer artist specializing in time travel through mold-making. Drawing from a background in bronze-casting and paleontology, her work speculates on our own futurity and fossilization. Reformative monuments, memorials, and artifacts become an act of queer place-making while contemplating human sustainability when facing imminent change. Pulling from experiences as a foundry craftsperson and metalworker allows her to navigate between structure and experimentation within a queer context, exploring the possibilities of a separated difference.

Budd has been awarded various inspiring artist residencies including PLAYA Summer Lake, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Vermont Studio Center and Recology San Francisco, the latter at which she spent four months developing a body of work made from materials gleaned archaeologically at the city dump. Budd earned an MFA at California College of the Arts where she received a Cadogan scholarship from the San Francisco Foundation, and a BFA in Sculpture at Miami University. Budd has exhibited throughout the US including at SOMArts Cultural Center and Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco, Site:Brooklyn, the Barrick Museum of Art in Las Vegas, the University of Arizona in Tucson, and SEED Lab at the Anchorage Museum. Currently serving as Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture at UNLV, both her personal practice and teaching philosophy consider how we define equitable futures and renew transforming worlds.

https://emilybudd.com/home.html