Emily Albee is a ceramic artist and educator based in Connecticut. She holds an MFA in Ceramics from Georgia State University and a BFA from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. She currently serves as Adjunct Faculty in Ceramics and Sculpture at the University of Connecticut.

Albee’s work has been exhibited nationally in both academic and independent spaces, including the Benton Museum of Art, The LIC-A Art Space, and Clay Art Center. She has participated in residencies at the Burren College of Art in Ireland, the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, and Five Points Gallery—experiences that continue to shape her materially attentive and process-driven approach.

Grounded in research into mythology, folktale, and fairytale, Albee’s practice considers how stories once helped humans understand their relationship to animals, plants, and the land. She is interested in what is lost when these shared narratives fade—how their erosion parallels growing ecological and cultural disconnection.

Most recently, her work has turned inward, drawing from her immediate surroundings and daily acts of observation. Through close attention to her home garden and local landscape, she follows plants through cycles of emergence, flowering, decay, and return. Vessel making and intimate sculptural forms translate these observations into objects that quietly echo the body through gesture, surface, and containment.