About this Artist

Emily Orling (she/her) is a visual artist, designer and poet working with paint, clay sculpture, fabric and installation. Since becoming a mother Emily has worked with textiles and ceramics to build art objects and garments that live and function in performance and alongside children. Emily's work on the musical FUTURITY earned her Lortel and Drama Desk nominations for Set Design. Set and Costume Design: FUTURITY (Soho Rep/Ars Nova; A.R.T.; Walker Art Center; MASS MoCA) Set Design: Joy(us) Just(us) for Contra-Tiempo (Jacob's Pillow, National and International Touring) NOISE (NYU. Upcoming: Hopkins Center for the Arts) Costume Design: The Universe is a Small Hat (Babycastles, Sarah Lawrence College, Princeton University); Full Still Hungry for Contra-Tiempo (Dance Motion USA, National and International Touring). Emily is the co-book writer and contributing lyricist on The Elementary Spacetime Show (NYSAF, NYU, UArts, Polyphone, Philly Fringe, EST/Sloan Commission, developed at Ars Nova). Solo Exhibitions: Lo River Arts Gallery, 473 Broadway Gallery, Dactyl Gallery. Group Exhibitions: 95 1/2 Main (Nyack, NY), Cal State Fullerton, Corridor Gallery.