Emily Knighton
Owner + Instructor
Emily has a B.F.A. in Studio Art, 7+ years of experience as a classroom art teacher, a certificate in art therapy, and homeschooling experience. She is a mother, a creator, a teacher and a trauma-informed therapy goer. She has worked as an Art Director, an international Tour Director, an elementary level art educator, and currently works as the Merchandise Manager at her favorite local bookshop. Emily believes deeply in the affect artistic practices can have on our well-being, our ability to connect to ourselves, to each other, and to our world.
About Art Club Co.
Art Club Co. was founded with fondness after years of both teaching and delving into the capabilities and natural tendencies of young children as well as witnessing and experiencing various methods of deep inner healing in adults. Art, movement and nature create unique opportunities to model and practice various coping skills and connection points which then flow into other parts of life. By cultivating a calming space and providing gentle guidance Emily aims to encourage an opportunity for people to learn about creating, about nature and ultimately about themselves.
Slow and steady.
At Art Club Co. it isn’t about pushing anyone to make a certain product. Emily is more interested in investing in the process, encouraging slowing down, taking a breath, learning and growing. By engaging in creative processes in various ways we can be encouraged to slowly observe the beauty and complexity found within and around us and can create from that space of observation.
A note from Emily…
As parents, as humans, as people interacting in the world the best we can, we all deserve the space to be present to ourselves and awake to our needs and capabilities. With the help of creative processes, I aim to cultivate that space. Connections to nature, even in small doses, can reconnect us to the grounded environment we live in. The busyness of life has a way of keeping us too busy to see, to feel, to breathe and to pause. Let me come alongside you in encouraging and inspiring your healing, your connection with your child, or your child’s individual creativity, by allowing a space for creativity and presence to meet one another. - Emily
First and last images by SJ DiCamillo of @dosdicamillos