Emily C-D
About Emily › Emily C-D received her BFA from MICA in 2005 and lives and works in Baltimore. She has led youth and adults in building artistic elements to enhance public and neighborhood spaces, including painting murals and cultivating gardens on abandoned lots.
Emily has a taste for exploration and most recently returned from traveling through India. Now back in Charm City, she divides her time between drawing, biking, building, painting murals, and teaching after school art classes.
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I have come to know my home city of Baltimore through extensive explorations of the city’s most blighted neighborhoods. The artworks that I create from the junk I pick up are attempts at reconciling the decay that I have witnessed. Though these discarded objects are considered useless, their former utility continues to imbue them. Once in my hands, these objects acquire new meanings, as they become integral elements in works of art that explore the tension between growth and decay.
installation
found objects
The floral street mural spans Holbrook Street near Greenmount Cemetery and connects two gardens on either side of the street. The project was done in collaboration with the Community Lot Team at Civic Works.
As written in The Sun on July 12, 2008:
Civic Works enlisted an artist to design and paint the street mural, which depicts vibrant flowers and connects one garden to the other. The artist, who goes by the name of Emily C-D, says she believes it is the first street mural in Baltimore. She used traffic- marking paint and solid deck stains in shades of yellow, orange, red, green and blue. "It's a clear indication that something is happening here," she said.
- Visual Arts
- Community Arts
Community
streetpainting
I spent 101 days traveling through India with longtime friend and artistic collaborator Jessie Unterhalter. While on the road, we worked on a series of collages made from found scraps of posters, magazines, newspapers, educational dittos, poloroids, and my drawings. We compiled the best of our work into the self-published mini art book "Bananas." The collages I have presented here are some of the ones that were either done exclusively by me or to which I contributed a fair amount of my artistic vision to the collaborative effort.
collage
India
I conducted community workshops where I taught a laminated paper mask-making technique. Participants let their imaginations run wild and built masks in a variety of styles. The mask forms were then donated to me, which I then painted. It was really fun to work off of other people's creations and to imbue them with my own artistic vision! The completed masks were a part of my Midway installation at Artscape, The Imago Machine.
- Visual Arts
- Community Arts
Community
masks
Examples of my poster designs, editorial illustrations, text design, and personal work. I love to draw and collage and tell a story with my pictures.
Poster
illustration
- Visual Arts
- Performing Arts
party
Facepaint
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