EDUCATION
Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
MFA: Visual Art
MA: History of Art
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
BFA, Double Major: History of Art, Fine Arts 3D
EXHIBITIONS
2021 Legacy: A Continuous Thread, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
2021 Up and Coming, Studio Hill Gallery, Woodbury, CT
2020 Myths of Perpetual Growth, Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase, NY
2019 Re: Figuring the Body, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 Here We Are In All Our Colors, Richard and Doll Maass Gallery, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
2019 A Platter with Long Legs, Soft Surplus, Brooklyn, NY
2019 In The Mesh, PS122 Gallery, New York
2019 In The Mesh, Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
2018 Be My Verb, European Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 B-Sides, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
2018 Everything’s Fine Here, Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
2018 Antioxidants, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
2018 Theresa India Young Award Exhibition, Frances Euphemia Thompson Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 Natural Reaction, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
2018 Made, Remade, Made New, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
2017 Trust Falls, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
2017 American G*rl, Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
2016 Standard Incomparable, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2016 The Small Show, Godine Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 Warp/Weft, Allison Wells Fine Art Gallery, New Bedford, MA
2015 Fiber Topographics: A Survey of Sculptural Fiber, West End Bakery, Asheville, NC
2014 Terroir, North Crackertorium, Boston, MA
2014 Theresa-India Young, President’s Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 The Theresa Show, Harriet Tubman Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 36”, Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 Ravel, Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA
HONORS AND AWARDS
2019 Strypemonde Teaching Fellowship, Purchase College, SUNY
2019 Outstanding MFA Award, Purchase College, SUNY
2018 First in Exhibition Catalogs, Publications Competition Award. Makers’ Marks: Art. Craft and the Fiber of Change, NEMA
2018 Art History MA & MFA Scholarship, Purchase College, SUNY
2017 Seigbert Scholarship, Purchase College, SUNY
2017 B & P Flanigan Scholarship, Purchase College, SUNY
2014 Haystack Mountain School of Craft Summer Conference Scholarship
2014 Graduation with Honors, History of Art & Fibers, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2014 Academic Honors, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2014 Marylin Pappas Award, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2013 Barbara L. Kuhlman Foundation Scholarship
2013 Theresa India Young Weaving Scholarship
EXPERIENCE
Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
2021 Artist in Residence
Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
2017— Adjunct Professor, Special Topics Colloquium: Fibers
2019 Teaching Assistant to Professor Sarah Warren in Craft Revivals
2018 Teaching Assistant to Professor Elizabeth Guffey in Design History
2017 Teaching Assistant to Professor Becky Sellinger in Materials and Methods
Textile Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Craft Instructor, Summer Camp, ages 7-10
Nichols House Museum, Boston, MA
2015–2017 Head of Collections and Education,
2013–2015 Special Projects Assistant
2012 Collections Intern
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
2016–2017 Textile Reproduction Fabricator
2014–15 Textile Conservation Technician
2014 Contemporary Gallery Assistant
2013 Textile Conservation Intern
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2014 Fabricator, Fiber: Sculpture 1960—Present
Clementine Baby Wraps, Boston, MA
2014 Contract Weaver,
Morton R. Godine Library, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2011–14 Technical Services Assistant
Mine Hill Jewelry, Southbury, CT
2007-10 Design Assistant,
LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
2021 Needlelace Star Workshop, Studio Hill Gallery, Woodbury, CT
2021 Armenian Needlelace Workshop, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
2021 Applied Needlelace Workshop, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
2021 Needlelace Workshop, Armenian Creatives Group, New York, NY
2020 Visiting Artist, Material Construction, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2020 Visiting Artist, Fiber Art + the String Revolution, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2019 Visiting Artist, Pre-College Artist Lecture Series, Maryland Institute College of Art
2019 In the Mesh: MFA Thesis Panel, Neuberger Museum, Purchase Museum
2019 Shared Memory: Cloth, Coping and Art in the Armenian Diaspora, Critical Craft Forum, College Art Association.
2017 Makers’ Marks: Art, Craft and the Fiber of Change, Nichols House Museum, Boston MA
2015 Polly Thayer Starr Artist Series, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
2015 Guest Lecturer: Weaving, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2014 Neighborhood Nights Artist, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2018 Made, Remade, Made New, Purchase College, Purchase NY
2017 Makers’ Marks: Art, Craft and the Fiber of Change, Nichols House Museum, Boston, MA
2016 Why Deprive the State of Her Service?, Nichols House Museum, Boston, MA
2014 Terroir, North Crackertorium, Boston, MA
2014 The Artist, The Scholar and The Athlete, Nichols House Museum, Boston, MA
2013 36”, Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA
PUBLICATIONS:
Welty, Emma. “Sam Spillman.” In Beyond, edited by Elizabeth Guffey, Purchase: Purchase College, State University of New York, 2018. Exhibition Catalog.
Welty, Emma. Makers’ Marks: Art, Craft and the Fiber of Change, Boston: Nichols House Museum, 2017. Exhibition Catalog.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Hello Emma Welty,” Vantage Points, ed. Evelyn Rydz, issue 7, September 9, 2019,
https://us19.campaign-archive.com/?u=82c166aa3e050ebc54cf960aa&id=e72c34aafd
Reynolds, Pamela, “Theresa-India Young Wove a Legacy Now on View at MassArt’s Thompson Gallery, The Artery, WBUR, September 25, 2018, https://www.wbur.org/artery/2018/09/25/theresa-india-young-legacy-massart-thompson-gallery.