emily nemens
creative resumé

WRITING: PUBLICATIONS and EDITORIAL WORK, AWARDS

Scrub: Short stories, published by Shady Lane Press                                                                          November 2007

• Collection of short stories and illustrations completed at Kerouac Residency                                   

Writer-in-Residence, Kerouac Project of Orlando                                                             September–November 2007

• Expenses-paid writing residency in Kerouac’s 1950s Florida home

Blue-eyed Apples                                                                                                                                  2004–2007

• Recently-completed novel, seeking representation
• Excerpts featured in The L Magazine’s Literary Upstart Competition (April 2007) and Writer’s House monthly
  reading series (December 2006, April 2007)

Editor of Painting Words, Sculpting Language: Creative Writing Workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Teacher Resource published by MMA in April 2007

It was a long walk home: Four days of politics and terrorism in Madrid                                                          May 2005

• Graphic novel about studying abroad in Madrid during 2004 train bombing

Speaking of Life: The Rhode Island AIDS Oral History Project                                                               December 2004

• Co-wrote, co-directed, and produced oral history performance piece and teaching tool

VISUAL ARTS: SOLO and GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS

Illustrator, Graphic novel version of Working, by Studs Terkel                                          to be published in early 2008

• Collaborating with Harvey Pekar (script) on chapter, Paul Buhle, editor

Solo show, Bar Rio, New York City         January–August 2006

Solo show, S’nice Restaurant, New York City     November 2005

• Featured artist in article “Feast for the Eyes,” Time Out New York, November 24 2005 issue

Solo show: “she said he said”List Art Center, Brown University                                                              February 2005

Solo show: “Piel Espanola,” List Art Center, Brown University                                                                  October 2004

Group Performance, Physicalist intervention, Armory Show                                                                       March 2006

Group Show, “Square Foot Show” Art Gotham, Chelsea                                                                        February 2006

Juried Group Show, “Figure Show” Madarts, Brooklyn                                                                           February 2006

Staff exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City                                                                         July 2005

Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University                                            April 2005

MUSIC

Plays baritone and alto saxophones, clarinet, piano                                                                                  1996-Present

    •  Saxophonist in Brown Jazz Band (2001-3), D’licks and the Army of Funk (2001–3), Garfield HS Jazz
       Ensemble(1997–2001)

    •  Performances include Essentially Ellington Competition at Lincoln Center, NYC (1999, 2001); Montreux Jazz Festival,
       Switzerland (1999, 2001); North Sea Jazz Festival, Holland (1999, 2001); Washington State Solo Competition
       (2000); with D’Licks, winner of Brown University “Battle of the Bands” (2002, 2003); with poet Michael Harper at
       New  York University (2005), with Negatones (2006), Ian Kane (2006)

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