Baker Artist Portfolios

Emily Suzanne Hines graduated magna cum-laude from Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA studying painting, illustration, and art history. Raised in a single parent family with a sister close in age, an assortment of eccentric misbehaving pets, and a house ever filling with half finished projects, Hines grew up surrounded by an incredible quantity of odd items rescued from trash cans, thrift stores, and yard sales and flea markets. Gleaning and making from available resources are a mentality of second nature. Much of the work has enabled and aided the grief process. Hines enjoys making fine art and illustration work in a variety of modes, which include elements of painting, fibers, sculpture, and the beginnings of photography and installation.
Feeling a desire to find something of depth and meaning beyond what she had experienced within the limited context of contemporary art within academia and theory, Hines? work has most recently taken her to the small town of Pollau Austria to participate in artist Josef Schutzenhofer?s the Liberation Project. Serving to foster international partnerships, and fuel dialogue related to censorship, traces of fascism, and free speech, The Liberation Project has been received with mixed emotions by residents of the town of Pollau, and has stirred debates across Austria.
These travels led also to a second solo show (co curated by Hines) which received a reviews for best show in Graz for the month of June, and opportunites to explore questions regarding the intersection between art, personal and societial trauma with psychotherapist Uta Weedam and participating Patients. Hines is interested in the capacity for healing and reconciliation to be generated through the anticipatory and un-repressed nature of contemporary art.