I trained as an interdisciplinary artist, working across sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and furniture-making to create installations that engage in intricate dialogue with their host architectures. My practice has encompassed a range of disciplines and contexts, including work as a tattoo artist and as a painting and drawing instructor at the University of Illinois.
After much searching, my practice has become devoted entirely to the creation and conservation of stained glass.
I have exhibited internationally at the Krannert Art Museum in Illinois, the RAA Gallery in California, the V&A Museum in Dundee, Scotland, and AU Galerie Brunnengasse 76 in Vienna, Austria. I pursued my undergraduate studies at Humboldt State University in California and Gray's School of Art in Scotland. I went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts through a Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship and Graduate Teaching Scholarship at the University of Illinois, graduating in 2022. I have more recently completed a Degree in Furniture Craft and Design at City of Glasgow College and am now finishing a Master’s in Stained Glass at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
Emmaly Crimmel (b. Modesto, CA 1994)
Based in Abergavenny, Wales