Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803), Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond (died 1788), 1785. Oil on canvas.  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New  York. 

 

      The daughter of a retired car photographer and mother with a Master's degree in English literature, Emily's passion for art began as a child growing up in Metro Detroit, Michigan, going to art museums and  galleries with her family. She fell in love with art history after she took a Western Art course in 2006 while attending Oakland Community College in Farmington Hills where she obtained an Associate's Degree in Liberal Arts. ​​Emily discovered she had a talent for writing about art during her time as a transfer student at Oakland University in Rochester where she won accolades for her work. She was inspired to pursue women artists after reading the late American art historian Linda Nochlin's (1931-2017) seminal 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"

      Since graduating cumme laude from Oakland University with her Bachelor of Arts in Art History in 2021, Emily has made it her mission to shine a light on little-known and overlooked women artists and spotlight the Michigan arts scene on her blog, Ramblings of a Restless Mind, founded in August 2022. In her spare time, she volunteers at Genesee County Animal Control in Flint.