2-D art, including murals, mosaic, photography, etc.
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
Emily Krill
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Assemblage, including found objects, multimedia
Painting/works on paper/printmaking
Studio Process, 2025, antique ledgers and found paper
Player Piano Beach, 2024, player piano paper, 1882 railway shares, late-1800s ledgers, chalk paint on school-lined paper, ink, and mid-1900s blueprints, 40″ x 30″
The Piano, 2023, antique ledgers, handmade paper, and woodgrain paper, 30″ x 40″
Seated Woman No. 2, 2025, antique ledgers, blueprints, correspondence, and printed ephemera, metallic paint, and ink, 48″ x 60″
Seated Woman No. 2 (detail), 2025, antique ledgers, blueprints, correspondence, and printed ephemera, metallic paint, and ink, 48″ x 60″
About the Artist
Emily Krill is a Pittsburgh-based visual artist born and raised in the area, where she has lived and worked for over thirty years. Her practice centers on large-scale collages made from nineteenth- and twentieth-century paper, including ledgers, blueprints, correspondence, and printed ephemera. Through walking, collecting, and close observation, she works with material history as a way of understanding place, structure, and lived systems. Her work is process-driven, analog, and rooted in sustained attention.
Photo by Gray Miller
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Accreditations, Certifications, and/or Awards
- Honor Award, Three Rivers Arts Festival, 2024
Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
No
Teaching Artist
No
Joined the Directory
April 2025
Related
PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
“I see my job as breathing life into otherwise unremarkable bits of paper. Letters, recipes, ledgers, report cards, dress patterns, and signed documents: This paper ephemera contains echoes of lives lived.”
Emily Krill
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Related
PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
