About the artist
Emily J. Fruth
was raised on a popcorn farm in a small village in Northwest Ohio. After spending two years in Indiana as a painting major, she returned to Ohio and began taking metalsmithing classes at BGSU. Emily possesses a pervading sense of empathy, overwhelming curiosity, a propensity for introspection, a deep need for exploration, and somewhat compulsive cleaning habits. She is heavily influenced by her readings, her adventures, her history, and her loved ones. Whereas many people have skeletons in their closets, Emily has soapboxes in hers. Ask her enough questions, and you’re sure to uncover a few of them. In her extremely limited free time, she enjoys blues dancing, swing dancing, reading, singing, sewing, hiking, camping, baking, watching musical theatre productions, listening to “nerd music”, living vicariously through other people’s cats, and dressing up as though she just walked out of a bygone decade.