Bio

Emily Fritts
(She/They)

Emily Fritts was born in Beaver Dam, WI, and is currently based in Saint Paul, MN. She graduated from Edgewood College with a BA in Studio Art and Art History. Her art examines personal aspects of her life including an upbringing in poverty, trauma, and navigating adolescence. Fritts works primarily by mixing media, incorporating imagery representative of real memories, and using found objects in her compositions to create a sense of reality. 

Fritts’ works have been featured in numerous noteworthy exhibitions and publications across the midwest and online. In the summer of 2022, her piece, On the Fritz, was selected to be in Northeast Wisconsin’s top most competitive art show at the Trout Museum of Art’s 2022 Contemporary Exhibition in Appleton, WI. Her watercolor painting, Self-Portrait at 21, was chosen to be displayed in the Racine Museum of Art’s Wustum Fine Art Museum’s Watercolor Wisconsin 2022 exhibition. In October of 2023 Emily Fritts was selected to be a featured artist in the Minnesota Center for Book Arts' New Editions exhibition in Minneapolis, MN. And most recently in the summer of 2024, In my Seams was chosen to be featured in the Minnesota State Fair’s competitive juried Fine Arts Exhibition.

For a span of five years, Emily Fritts' artworks were featured in Wisconsin’s annual National Alliance on Mental Illness’ Healing Art Show.  She was chosen three years in a row to be in Edgewood College’s Juried Student Art Show; she won a juried prize in 2021 for her triptych, Dodge County Chronicles. In 2023 she was awarded the Fra Angelico Art Award from Edgewood College for exceptional work in the arts and the Madison community.

Fritts’ works have also been published in four editions of Lost/Found Edgewood College’s Creative Arts Magazine, she was interviewed for Wrath and Love Magazine, she has been featured in independent zines such as The Pool Issue 1 by W.E.T. MPLS, the Valentine’s Edition of Better Homes and Dykes, Moody x Butterfly Collective’s Trans Joy issue, and many others.

Her complete list of art exhibitions and publications are available online through this website. Fritts also actively updates her happenings and new works on social meidia. On her Instagram is where you can see a near complete collection of her art portfolio pieces.

Instagram @frittsart

Photograph by Jami Balicki, @jblici_photography on Instagram