Emily Howard is a Texas-based studio artist and arts educator who explores the body, chronic illness, the abject, and femininity through ceramics and different mediums. She earned her MFA with a focus in Ceramics from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Emily was awarded the Art Star Volunteer Award for services to the art community of Corpus Christi, and she has shown works in exhibitions across the United States including Texas, Maryland, Illinois, California, Oregon, Indiana, and Montana. She is currently located in the Dallas area where she is teaching art-based courses.Emily’s work began as an investigation into the representation of the chronically ill or disabled body through ceramics and mixed media. This exploration stemmed from her experience living with chronic illness. With this research, she has sought to create environments for the viewer to exist in alongside the work in an attempt to provoke confrontation with the abject and ultimately, understanding. These ideas led Emily to explore her experience as a woman in obtaining her diagnosis and ultimately the context of femininity and the marginalization of craft-based media. Emily utilizes conventional hand-building and throwing techniques to create sculptures that employ found medical objects, robotic technologies, fabrics, and crafting materials within the narrative environment. She uses varying types of clay and firing processes for different parts of the body to influence the audiences’ view of certain topics. Emily is continually questioning her thoughts and experiences within and outside of the medical world. These investigations present themselves and help to decipher how she experiences and views the world. This work is ever progressing in its use of materials. It is leading into investigations of inequities within healthcare and reaching for attempts to understand herself and her relation to the world, her place as a maker, and the sustainability of her practice.