About Me
Emily Chebli is a printmaker, illustrator, and more. She grew up in Miami, Florida, and is currently based out of there. Emily graduated high school with her Associates degree, from Miami-Dade College, which is where she began her college-level art training. She then continued onto Warren Wilson College near Asheville, North Carolina, graduating in 2024 with her B.A. in both Art and English.
Emily’s art practice is mainly printmaking, along with painting, book arts, and fiber arts.
Artist Statement
My art is a narrative and visual exploration of stories: folktales, fairytales, myths, and more. The parts of folk and fairytales that I am most interested in include the evolution of a story from past to present, the therapeutic nature of storytelling, representations of women and queerness, and the repetitive and pattern-making nature of these stories. Humans tell the same tales again and again, with different names and places and details, but the same values living in the underbelly: belonging, love, safety, fear, rejection, and acceptance.
As primarily a printmaker (intaglio, relief, and recently stone lithography), I find a lot of joy in the ideating, planning, and process stages of making art. I almost always take on an illustrative approach in my work, in both printmaking and painting. I find that printmaking shares a lot of similarities with storytelling, including its nature of repetition, variants, and its ability to be spread far and wide.
Storytelling is central to my practice, whether I’m revisiting a story from my childhood or researching a tale that is newer to me. My goal is to capture the spirit of a tale, and change something significant about a character or plot point to say something more personal about myself, the people around me, and the world we all inhabit.
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Education
2023-2024
Warren Wilson College | Swannanoa, NC
Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude
Double Major: Art and English
2017-2021
Miami Dade College | Miami, FL
Associate of Arts, Highest Honors
Dual Enrollment, Pre-Bachelor of Arts
Workshops Attended
July, 2023
Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts
“Research and Play in Monoprint and Monotype” | Kaleena Stasiak
Received funding through the Windgate Fellowship
October, 2024
Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts
“Tell Me a Story: Narratives in Metal” | Ashley Gilreath
Tuition waived as part of Events Internship
March, 2025
Atlanta Printmakers Studio
“Mezzotint with Art Werger”
Weekend workshop
June, 2025
Penland School of Craft
“From The Soft Ground Up” | Anna Wagner
Received funding through a Penland scholarship
October, 2025
Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts
“Book Stuctures: Form and Content” | Ciel Rodriguez
Received funding through Temple scholarship
Other Awards
Mar. 2022
North Carolina College Media Association Conference
First Place in Editorial Cartoons
Aug. 2021–May 2024
Warren Wilson College Community Engagement Award
Presentations
May 2024
“Speaking About the Unspoken: Complications in Motherhood as Represented in Kinder- und Hausmärchen”
Senior Thesis presentation for English Major
April 2024
Artist Talk - Senior Art Exhibition
Mar. 2024
Making & Thinking Conference | Southern Highland Craft Guild
Selected as a participant in “Up Next: Student and Emerging Artist Short-Form Presentations”
Work Experience
June 2025 - Present
Oral History Indexer
Quilt Alliance | Remote
Oct. 2024 - Nov. 2024
Events Intern
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts | Gatlinburg, TN
Aug. 2023 - May 2024
Production Weaver, Crew Member
Fiber Arts Crew, Warren Wilson College | Swannanoa, NC
Aug. 2022 - May 2023
Outreach Coordinator, Printmaking Studio Assistant
Holden Arts Gallery, Warren Wilson College | Swannanoa, NC
Aug. 2021 - May 2022
Academic Writing Tutor
Writing Studio, Warren Wilson College | Swannanoa, NC
Volunteering
Jan. 2023 - May 2023
Archives Intern
Western Regional Archives | Swannanoa, NC
Jan. 2020 - Aug. 2021
Editorial Intern
New Moon Girls Media | Remote
Exhibitions
2024
Memory, etc. — Senior Art Exhibition
Warren Wilson College, Elizabeth Holden Gallery
2023
pining, reaching, feeling — Juried Student Art Show
Warren Wilson College, Elizabeth Holden Gallery
Best Storyteller
2023
Show for Presidential Inauguration
Warren Wilson College, Spotlight Gallery
2022
Juried Student Art Show
Warren Wilson College, Elizabeth Holden Gallery
Best in Show
Published & Commissioned Projects
2025
Illustrator for “Are You a Librarian?: The Untold Stories of Black Librarians” - Forthcoming documentary
2023
Co-muralist and designer for Verner Center for Early Learning, Center for Resilience building - Outdoor mural
2022
Contributor to The Peal, Warren Wilson College’s literary and arts magazine - Three images published