Emily Springer is an emerging artist, native of Silver Spring, Maryland. She has recently completed her undergraduate studies at the George Washington University, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, DC. Her work has been featured at various galleries and art centers including the Delaplaine, Montpelier, and Chesapeake Arts Centers. Emily’s exploration of art is defined by the artistic techniques of needlework that allows for her to create fabric compositions expressing the vast narratives and story-telling of Black womanhood within her artistic practice. Through connections between ancestral legacies passed down to the elderly, middle, and the youth generations, her work functions as a veneration of collective memory through this deep cultural identity. Utilizing the versatility of textile art making, her creative processes utilizes elements of machine sewing, hand embroidery, beading, and quilting to create captivating artworks.