Emily Chow Bluck is an artist, educator, and organizer based in New York City. Working primarily with communities of color in urban neighborhoods, she uses her art praxis to build local campaigns for social justice. These creative campaigns harness experiences of struggle and oppression to manifest new narratives of overcoming, social value, and self-determined futures. She has been actively engaged in organizing in Los Angeles, Baltimore, and New York City, working with organizations such as the Labor/Community Strategy Center, No Boundaries Coalition, and the Audre Lorde Project. Emily is currently the Inaugural Dina Wind Art as Catalyst Fellow at Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. Emily holds a B.A. in Politics & International Relations from Scripps College and a M.F.A. in Community Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
CONSUMPTION is a project that grew out of Rick Lowe’s residency with Asian Arts Initiative. The goal of the project was to explore ways to bridge relationships between the diverse stakeholders along Pearl Street in Philadelphia’s Chinatown North.
Emily Chow Bluck and Aletheia Hyun-Jin Shin
Who's Who, 2015
Digital photographs
11 x 22"
Who's Who is an outdoor portrait series of some of the stakeholders of Pearl Street alley. Each portrait is accompanied by short biographies written by the individuals themselves and exhibited along the 1200 block of Pearl Street.
Featured in Loving Blackness
War Bride
Graphite on paper
16 x 24"
This drawing was inspired by the lived reality of some people of mixed Asian and non-Asian background being children of war or conflict- an identity that clashes directly with the commonplace narrative that all mixed people, particularly mixed Asian and white children, are inherently privileged and well-off.
Featured in A More Perfect Union
How do you like me now?
Graphite on paper
Diptych 8” x 24” each
How do you like me now? is a personal take on the artist grappling with her own mixedness, her racially ambiguous features.
Featured in A More Perfect Union
