May Emery

Bio
May Emery began her formal education in 1976 with Bauhaus trained Professor Albert Alcalay at Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and was recommended for a painting intensive with Flora Natapoff. After raising her children, May returned to school and received her B.F.A. in 1996 from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. While at the SMFA and Tufts, she studied art history with Professor Susan Denker and worked in the painting studio of Miroslav Antic. After graduating, she went on to work with Graham Nickson at the New York Studio School. In 2006, May received a grant from the University of Massachusetts for team research at the Silvio O. Conte Center for Polymer Research reconnecting art and science through materials research. The learned methodologies of materials experimentation are applied in her painting and printmaking. May shows and sells her work in Boston and western Massachusetts.