"Emily created a beautiful painting to accompany my short story in a journal. I was astonished when I first saw it by how well it matched the setting and details of my story, which takes place in an Italian hotel room. Her use of color and light is extraordinary. It’s an absolute delight to look at, and it adds another dimension to my story, another way in."
--Cheryl Pappas
Artist
visual art exhibitions
Poets from Elsewhere 2021
Persimmon Tree Journal
February 2020, Valentine Show
August House, Chicago, IL
September 2019, Peace, Love & Understanding
Gallery 1070, Chicago, IL
September 2019, 48th Ward Art Wall
Chicago, IL
January 2019, Weather the Weather
Highland Park City Hall, Highland Park, IL
September 2018 Beverly Art Walk,
Americanos Restaurant, Chicago, IL
September 2018, Voices & Visions
Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
May 2018, The Emergent Garden
Gallery 1070, Chicago, IL
May 2018, Uptown Poetry & Smith Wall Poems
Green Mill Jazz Lounge, Chicago, IL
February 2018, Morpho Gallery
Chicago, IL
October 2017, Poems & Paint
Green Mill Jazz Lounge, Chicago, IL
October 2017, Poems & Paint
Green Mill Jazz Lounge, Chicago, IL
May 2017, St. Charles ArtsFest
Pheasant Run Resort, St. Charles, IL
June 2016, 2017 Elmhurst Arts Summer Show Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
June 2016, LEXICON
Zhou B Art Center, 2nd Floor Chicago, IL
May 2016, Flora & Fauna
August House Gallery, Chicago, IL
April 2016, Not Your Grandma’s Poetry
Harold Washington Library, Chicago, IL
March 2016, Poetry with Vision
Loyola University, Chicago, IL
August 2016, How We Move
Expressions Graphics, Oak Park, IL
May 2015, Art Exhibition and Performance Women and Children First Books, Chicago, IL
October 2014, Shambhala Sun Fundraiser
Online Gallery/Auction
October 2010, 2014, Waterworks 2015, 2016
Ed Hinkley Studio, Chicago, IL
December 2013, Dr. Holiday’s Artful Cures
August House Gallery Chicago, IL
January 2013, Shambhala Sun Fundraiser
Online Gallery/Auction
May 2011, Women Made Gallery Words & Pictures Chicago, IL
December 2009, John J. Shedd Aquarium Chicago, IL
July 2001, 2002, L’art de Fontenay Le Comte Fontenay Le Comte, France
Published Art
October 2021, 2022 East on Central
Print literary journal
Wallflowers
How We Move Through Generations
Room #5 and Dragon's Teeth
October 2020, East on Centrral - Volume 19
How We Move in Circles
September 2020, Standing in the Need of Prayer
Edited by Nikki Giovanni, Illustrated by Emily Calvo
All illustrations (Cover and internal art)
October 2019 , 2021 Women Artists Datebook
Determination, How We Move to Grow
Syracuse Cultural Workers
Spring 2018, Subprimal Poetry & Art
How We Move in the Face of the Hollow Man
https://subprimal.com/issues/issue11
June 2018, Writer City Review
Not Unlike Sheep
Workshops
April 2019, Adding Poems to Art: A Demonstration
Chicago Poetry Festival
Harold Washington Library, Chicago, IL
Education
2009 - Present, Ed Hinkley Studio, Chicago, IL
2013 Palette & Chisel Chicago, IL
2000 - 2001, Oak Park Art Center, Oak Park, IL
affiliations
Chicago Artist Coalition
Elmhurst Art Museum
Woman Made Gallery
