Emily Singleton is a visual artist living in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. While primarily a painter, she is a lifelong learner with a deep curiosity for material exploration and sustainable processes. Growing up with limited financial resources, later teaching in low-budget Title I schools, and navigating life with ADHD have all shaped her approach to making. These experiences foster a creative resourcefulness that drives her process, encouraging experimentation while helping her avoid stagnation and boredom.

Emily is deeply committed to sharing the healing power of the arts with young people, particularly those who are at-risk. Her public school teaching career spans elementary, middle, and high school classrooms, and includes work as a teaching artist within a residential foster home community and with the North Carolina Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Program.

Most themes within Emily's work are guided by personal experiences, often those of 'Home' and growing up in rural Appalachia.