Emily Ryan Stark
Visiting Assistant Professor in Art

Area of Expertise: Fiber Arts

Emily Ryan Stark, originally from Western Montana, is an artist and educator who currently lives and works in Saratoga Springs, New York. She received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, a BS from the University of Oregon, and a BA from the University of Montana. 

Stark engages in a process-focused practice that emphasizes craft and detailed surfaces. Her work is rooted in fiber and consists of soft sculptural objects, garments, and woven structures. She loves to dress and adorn armatures, both to mask and to reveal inner landscapes and visceral states. Stark is influenced by occult and contemplative practices, science fiction, and gender studies. She explores the ways in which we experience materials—both in a felt sense, and as complex carriers of histories, and how the systems and norms we are entangled in influence our emotions, relationships, and attachments.

Office: Saisselin 
518-580-5055
Email: estark@skidmore.edu 

BA, University of Montana
BS, University of Oregon
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art