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Emily Sullivan Smith is an Associate Professor of Foundations at the University of Dayton. She serves as the coordinator for the Foundations program. Having earned her BFA and MFA degrees from Kent State University in printmaking, her teaching experience includes Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Design, Drawing, Sculpture and all levels of Printmaking including relief, monoprint, serigraphy and intaglio. She has taught with Kent State University, The College of Wooster as well as with The Akron Art Museum and for several nonprofit organizations.

Emily has been an active participant in technology integration in the fine arts classroom, and has successfully incorporated iPads into Foundations curriculum. She views art making and design as an all encompassing and integrated experience. Her aim as an educator is to provide experiences for students, allowing them to use all of their capabilities in observing the world around them and learn to reflect their observations using visual languages.

Faculty perspective

"I believe that teaching is an active, multi-disciplinary adventure, whereby the instructor’s role is to facilitate opportunities and pose questions aimed at encouraging awareness and engagement. The classroom is a place for students to discover their own capabilities, observe the world around them, gain exposure to methods and materials, build practical knowledge of processes, hand skills and context, but overall to become knowledgeable, engaged, articulate, clear thinking, problem-solvers."

"I think one of the things about being an artist you should be allowed to test murky, unclear, and unsure territory or all you have left are substitutes that signify these positions."   Judy Pfaff

Professional activities

• Zygote Press
• Akron Art Museum
• College Art Association
• Mid America Print Council

Research interests

• Foundations in Visual Arts
• Integrated Teaching: Traditional and Contemporary Methods
• Professional Development
• Printmaking (non-toxic)
• Sculpture and Installation
• Color Theory
• Minimalism
• Museum and Gallery Installation / Art Handling

Selected Presentations and publications

2013 

Printmaking Demonstration and Lecture in conjunction with Multiplicity, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio

Printmaking for Art Educators, Northeast Region of the Ohio Art Education Association, Kent, Ohio

2010   

Printeresting, Studio Visit: Emily Sullivan

Selected exhibitions

2014

Really Big Prints, Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowok, Wisc.

Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Two Rivers, Wisc.

Working Artists, Juried Exhibition, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio

2013

All That Glitters, Black Balloon Editions, Cleveland

Non-Sequitor, window installation, Black Balloon Editions, Cleveland

Print International 4 Juried Exhibition, Shy Rabbit Contemporary Arts, Pagosa Springs, Colo.

2012

Gold, Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky, Ohio

Fellow Travelers, Zygote Press, Cleveland

Dimensional, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland

2011

w/ wo rds, Snowflake Gallery, St. Louis

2010

19, 6th Annual Invitational Exhibition, Asterisk Gallery, Cleveland

Lake Effect, Heights Arts, Cleveland

Copy Jam, Printeresting at Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Philadelphia

Collections:

Franz Masereel Centrum Archive, Kasterlee, Belgium