Born in Boston, Emanuela De Musis traveled to Italy in 2008 to study drawing in Florence and subsequently enrolled at the Academy of Realist Art Boston where she now teaches figure painting and drawing. She holds a BFA in Painting from Carnegie Mellon and is a graduate of Walnut Hill School for the Arts. In 2015, she was listed among Poets and Artists Magazine's 50 Memorable Painters. Her painting, Miss Rachel, was awarded the Gold Medal at the Guild of Boston Artists' Regional Juried Exhibition and in 2016 won First Place in the Portraiture Category of the Art Renewal Center's International Salon Competition. She also placed second in that same category with her painting, Fritter and Waste.
Emanuela is represented by Williams Fine Art Dealers. She is currently working on a series of paintings that deals with fertility, pregnancy and motherhood. For more about Emanuela and her work, visit emanuelademusis.blogspot.com
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