Bio
Emily White Tousley was born in 1998 in Orem, Utah. She studied art at BYU-Hawaii and completed her BFA in art at BYU in Provo, Utah, in 2025. She is licensed to teach art in public school to grades K through 12 and currently teaches at Karl G. Maeser Preparatory Academy. She has been included in various important exhibitions, including “39th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah,” in the Springville Art Museum, Springville Utah; “Statewide Emerging Artists Annual,” at the Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, Utah; and “Outgrowth,” participating in the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, West Valley City, Utah. She was honored with an honorable mention award by Bountiful Davis Art Center as part of “Statewide Emerging Artists Annual,” and the juror’s choice award at the BYU Art Department Annual Student Exhibition in 2023, 2024, and 2025. She currently lives and works in Highland, Utah.
Artist Statement
My artwork uses materials with different relationships to physicality and reality to qualify, explore, and analyze human consciousness and real incorporeal experiences. By combining different media with varying relationships to space and dimension, I explore the complex way we inhabit space with our inner selves. To that end, my work contains elements of sculpture, drawing, painting, sound, photography, digital technology, and more. Using these materials, I make work about people, the connections they contrive, the spaces they inhabit, and the objects they imbue with meaning. I examine the concept of generations, how past consciousnesses may influence present ones, and how a pseudo-physical entity can leave its mark on a physical space long after it was embodied.