Biography
Emily Free Wilson was born in Anchorage, Alaska and grew up in Roseburg, Oregon. In college she studied ceramics and sculpture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, receiving her BFA in 2001. Emily moved to Helena, Montana in 2002 working with other galleries and museums until she acquired a position as Gallery Director at the Archie Bray Foundation, which she worked for over 10 years. In 2009 with her husband Matt Wilson and brother Bobby Free, started her pottery business Free Ceramics. In 2015 Emily left the Bray to work full time with her husband in their studio and art center. Emily and Matt had converted a funeral home into an art center, creating a space for community to gather, concerts to be enjoyed and 9 multi-media artists to have private studios. In 2019 she moved her family and business to Gardiner, Oregon where they purchased a middle school. Emily currently makes pottery in Gardiner with her husband Matt and their two children while starting a residency program called the Oregon Coast School of Art.
