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 “Outgrowth,” participating in the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, West Valley City, Utah, “I Am Everywhere and So Are You” at the Weight Room Gallery, Provo, Utah, and “BYU Art Department Annual Student Exhibition” at the Weight Room Gallery, Provo, Utah. She was honored with 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
Despite centuries of miraculous advancements in science and technology, I still live inside my head, and everyone else lives inside theirs. In English, the most common and accepted word for this is our sense of consciousness. While it is irrevocably attached to the human experience, very little progress has been made in the effort to quantify, explicitly describe, or access consciousness. Therefore, my artwork aims to qualify it. By combining different mediums with different relationships with space and dimension, I approach the unfathomable 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 spaces they inhabit, and the objects they imbue with meaning. I examine generations, how past consciousnesses may affect present ones, and how an incorporeal entity can leave its mark on a physical space long after it was physically embodied.