Emma Rose Hanley

Emma Rose Hanley was born and raised in North Carolina, a daughter of two Irish immigrants from Dublin, Ireland. She received her BFA from Appalachian State University in 2024, where she focused her studies in ceramics and arts education. Since then, Emma Rose has been blending her love of ceramics with themes such as time, memory, connection, heritage, and ritual. She utilizes her ceramic practice as a form of art care, which provides space to come to terms with experiential learning and knowing, providing the foundation of her work.

Emma Rose Hanley has curated multiple shows for the Nth Degree Gallery in Boone, NC, which also housed her solo show expose, titled “Mud Thoughts, Learning and Knowing Through Clay Reckoning” in 2024. She has also been accepted into multiple juried exhibitions, including NCECA’s 2024 Conference show, “A Place Called Home,” shown at Virginia Commonwealth University, and the Bascom: Center for the Visual Arts’ “Emergence: A Survey of Southeastern Studio Programs.” In 2023 she was awarded the Steele Reese Scholarship to study at the Penland School of Craft summer session, and her art has been accepted into The Peel: Literature & Arts Review, print edition, spring 2024.