Emily Schubert
Emily was born and raised in the borderlands between Cincinnati, Ohio and Northern Kentucky. She has a BFA in fiber and textile art from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is currently based in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, where she lives with her partner and two cats.
Emily Schubert is an interdisciplinary artist working mainly in the worlds of puppetry, performance, sculpture and collage. She is inspired by the fantastical and the everyday and how these shape peoples' perception of the world. Drawing from mythology, folktales, memories, and personal experience she creates narratives and characters that aim to make some sense of our existence by giving form to our collective anxieties and desires. She has worked in many fields, made costumes for traveling Broadway shows, participated in puppet theater festivals and workshops in Europe, Indonesia, and the United States and has found a passion for growing her own food and flowers along the way. Enthralled by the emotive power and depth of expression achieved through puppetry and storytelling, she believes that within these realms lies a source of real-life magic that is deficient in much of our daily lives!
We live in an ever-changing uncontrollable reality and at times it becomes difficult to make sense of all that is happening within and outside of our present selves.
Emily creates objects to grapple with the philosophical quandaries life presents. An interdisciplinary approach allows Emily to address these quandaries in the way she sees fit. Her responses vary from the immediate visual poetry of collage to the intricacies of creating a many-pieced character costume, to the layered process of writing, building, and rehearsing short performances. Each practice informs the others in the way many facets combine to create an identity. She is drawn to tactile materials and methods and is interested in the use of repurposed and found objects adding layers of complexity and interconnection to the work. Though the questions may never be answered, her attempts, though futile, are a personal leap forward into the perplexity of the afore unknown.
EMILY SCHUBERT
Cincinnati, Ohio 1991
Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, MD 2009-2013
BFA: Fiber & Textile Arts
UPCOMING ShowS/ EXHIBITIONS
March 22 - 30, 2024. Ask Baba Yaga. Irma Friedman Center for Imagination. Pittsburgh, PA.
https://uncumber-theatrics.ticketleap.com/askbabayaga/
April 4 - 8, 2024. New Orleans Giant Puppet Fest. New Orleans, LA.
https://www.neworleansgiantpuppetfest.com
May 3 - 5, 2024. Tendrils & Tongues. Baltimore Crankie Festival. Creative Alliance. Baltimore, MD.
https://creativealliance.org/event/2024-baltimore-crankie-festival
July 9, 2024. An Evening of Crankies Featuring Katherine Fahey & Emily Schubert. Speak Story Series. Shepherdstown, WV.
https://www.speakstoryseries.com
art exhibitions
2022. Towards a Totality of Effect. Gallery 709. Missoula, MT.
Humor Me. William King Museum of Art. Humor Me. Abingdon, VA.
2021. Between A Rock & A Soft Place. Bunnell Street Art Center. Homer, AK.
2020. Avifauna. The Museum of Infinite Outcomes. Knoxville, TN.
Flat File 2020. Institute of Contemporary Art. Balitmore, MD.
2017. Un//Known. Sandra J. Blain Gallery. Arrowmont School of Art and Craft. Gatlinburg, TN.
2016. Okay. Wolpert Gallery. Arrowmont School of Art and Craft. Gatlinburg, TN.
Arrowmont Resident’s 2016. The Emporium. Knoxville, TN.
2014. Ripple: Community, Cloth & Connectivity. VisArts, Rockville, MD
2013. MICA Commencement Exhibition. Station Building Room 101. Baltimore, MD.
2012. Garment Workers. Juried Group Show, MICA Baltimore, MD
2011. Not Your Father’s Trouser’s Fiber department show, MICA Baltimore, MD
2010. Kalib & the Water Spirits. Great Small Works Little Toy Theater Festival, Brooklyn, New York
Past PERFORMANCEs
2024. UAP or The Unflappable Aunt Pat at Nasty, Brutish, & Short. Chicago International Puppetry Festival. Links Hall. Chicago, IL.
2023. World Woman. Sandglass Theater Crankie Festival. Green Mountain Orchard Putney, VT.
UAP or The Unflappable Aunt Pat. Show of Hands Puppet Festival. Visionaries and Voices. Cincinnati, OH.
Crankies Take New York! Flushing Town Hall. Flushing, New York City.
Suzzie Sal the Science Gal. New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival. Always Lounge. New Orleans, LA.
Stravinsky’s Fire Bird. Fiddle Sticks Concert. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Pittsburgh, PA.
2022. For the Future. Baltimore Crankie Festival. Creative Alliance. Balitmore, MD.
2021. For the Future. Bunnell Street Arts Center. Homer, AK.
2020. The Muddle. Baltimore Crankie Festival. Creative Alliance. Balitmore, MD.
2019. World Woman; Burly Man. LEAF Festival. Asheville, NC.
Pink House Cabaret. Summer Tour. Chicago, IL; Detroit, MI; Pittsburg, PA.
Resist the Gloom. National Puppetry Festival. Minneapolis, MN.
World Woman. Baltimore Crankie Festival. Creative Alliance. Balitmore, MD.
2018. Burly Man. Black Cherry Puppet Theater. Baltimore, MD.
Circles From Lines. Creative Alliance. Baltimore, MD.
2017. Resist the Gloom. Links Hall. Chicago, Illinois.
Rising Weeds. Great Halloween Lantern Parade. Patterson Park. Baltimore, MD.
2016. The “Realness” of Things and Heartsplinters. Center for Puppetry Arts. Atlanta, GA.
An Evening with the Bag Lady. The Theater Project. Baltimore Fringe Fest. Baltimore, MD.
2015. Heart Splinters. Strung Out Puppet Cabaret. Cincinnati, OH.
Heart Splinters. Black Cherry Puppet Theater. Baltimore, MD.
2014. Pozor VLLK! Teatrotoč Theater. Prague, Czech Republic.
Treewoman. U Street Funk Parade. Washington D.C.
The Bag Lady. Black Cherry Puppet Theater. Baltimore, MD.
2013. The Farmer and His Flower. Black Cherry Puppet Theater. Baltimore, MD.
Treewoman. MAYDAY at the Transmodern Festival. Baltimore, MD.
Kisah Baru Lama: An Old New Story. 2640 Space. Baltimore MD.
2012. The Sense Monsters. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Magical Bag Lady & Nose Monster. 50 Fest: Centerstage Theater, Baltimore, MD
Mouth Monster. Look Both Ways: Street Arts Festival. Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.
REsidencies
2021. Montana Open A.I.R. Former Rattlesnake Creek Damn Site. Missoula, MT. May - June.
Bunnell Street Arts Center. Homer, AK. April.
2017. Arrowmont School of Art and Craft. Gatlinburg, TN. June 2016 - June 2017.
2015. Calypso Farm & Ecology Center. Fairbanks, AK. May - October 2015.
2012. Papermoon Puppet Theater. Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
RECOGNITION/ PUBLICATIONS
2024. https://www.speakstoryseries.com
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/27/sublime-moving-panorama-tells-the-tale-of-a-dream.html
2023. https://www.visionariesandvoices.com/events/exhibition-title
2022. https://www.creativealliance-onview.org/crankiefest
2021. https://www.openairmt.org/artist-interviews/emily-schubert-nourish
https://www.peninsulaclarion.com/life/visiting-artist-creates-multi-potentialities-in-art/
https://www.bunnellarts.org/emily-schubert-artist-in-residence-and-exhibit-april-2021/
