Emily Ohland

Emily Ohland is a fused glass and multimedia artist who lives in West Lafayette, Indiana. She has been working with glass since 2007. Emily has a degree in Music Education and taught in public schools and private lessons for many years. Her glass journey started when she and a dear friend opened a paint-your-own pottery and glass fusing venue in Lafayette, IN. Though that business went the way of many in the recession in 2010, Emily had caught the glass art bug and kept all the glass and kilns and started creating in her home art studio.

Emily has been developing her art through studying traditional art mediums over the last 15 years to build on the skills she acquired in high school art classes. She employs those techniques using glass as acanvas and enamels and underglazes the medium. Emily’s absolute favorite way to express her artistryis through multi-media artworks where she can employ painting, fusing, metal working, construction and really dig in to a larger vision. Emily’s main inspiration is the natural world. She considers her overarching style to be representational with a touch of whimsy. Artistically she wants her works to have impact from any distance, she likes to draw the viewer in by creating new things to observe in her works from all distances. In fact, when you get close, she wants you to even touch her work so that the organic experience of creation can be appreciated by the person who can feel the texture or be fooled by the optical illusion Emily sometimes creates.

Her wide range of art includes outdoor and garden installations, home décor, wearable art and functional art such as plates, bowls and other useful items. Emily loves to work with clients to create glass works that bring them joy in their space. Her works have traveled to Australia, Germany, and China as well as all over the United States. She works to make her items available to a broad audience, while bringing the sense of growth, color, and movement from the natural world to her works.