Emily Joyce: Improving Your Craft Through Play, What Art School Doesn’t Prepare You For, and a Love of Nostalgia & Mechanisms

Emily Joyce, an enamelist, sculptor, and jewelry maker, discusses her creative process and balancing her work with being a teacher and a mom. She shares her love for mechanisms and creating playful, nostalgic pieces. Emily talks about her struggles with displaying her work at art festivals and her desire to explore new techniques. She also offers one-on-one classes to teach others and finds inspiration from other metalsmiths. Emily discusses her daily routine and the challenges of marketing and staying consistent on social media. In this conversation, Christine and Emily discuss the challenges of consistency and engagement on Instagram, the struggle to balance creativity with the business side of being an artist, and the importance of finding your own unique style. They also talk about the desire for gallery representation and teaching at craft schools. Emily shares her favorite pieces and her goals for the future.

Bio...

Emily Joyce is a vitreous enamelist, sculptor, and art studio instructor from Cleveland, Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Enameling from The Cleveland Institute of Art and earned a Master in Arts Education from Case Western Reserve University. Emily’s work is a thoughtful balance of playfulness and humor from her experience as an art teacher and as a student. She is currently interested in exploring the mechanisms of equipment found on playgrounds and how the undermanaged and immensely imaginative time spent on the playgrounds helps to shape us into adults.

Follow Emily...

Instagram: @emilyjoyceofficial

Website: www.emilyejoyce.com

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