Vestibule Artists

Emma Jane Royer is a visual artist known for her work in textiles and paper. She uses the time and labor-intensive processes of knitting, weaving and sewing as metaphors to explore the delicate, intimate and imperfect texture of our ordinary experience.

Emma's solo exhibition Tendering, appeared at the Vestibule in November 2023. In her installation, Emma threaded one bead for each minute she breastfed her daughter for nine-months. Emma has been honored with an Artist Trust GAP Award, 4Culture Individual Artist Project Award, and the Dana and Tori Ann Rust Memorial Fellowship from the Museum of Northwest Art. She was an Artist-In-Residence at the Jentel Foundation in Sheridan, Wyoming and the recipient of the Clowes Foundation Fellowship for a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Emma has exhibited at numerous institutions including the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, the Bellevue Art Museum and Gallery4Culture in Seattle, WA. Her artwork is in private and public collections including University of New Mexico Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis Special Collections Library, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and John Hancock. Emma earned an MFA from the University of New Mexico, an M.Ed from the University of Washington and a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis.