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Artist Bio Emily Shepard was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Middlebury College in Vermont, where she majored in history and began her fine art studies. She pursued work in printmaking at Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Massachusetts College of Art, and after moving to Colorado, studied drawing at CU Boulder and book arts at Naropa University. Later, she relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend the California College of the Arts, where she received an MFA with Distinction in work that integrated printmaking, book arts and sculpture. Shepard was honored with the Barclay Simpson Award and has shown her work locally and nationally in juried exhibitions, including the Crocker-Kingsley exhibition in Sacramento and on Artsy with Jen Tough Gallery. She is a member of the artist-run gallery, Mercury20 in Oakland, CA. Her work is included in private and corporate collections.

Shepard swims year-round in the San Francisco Bay without a wetsuit, which focuses her senses, challenges her will, and informs her art. She shares her artistic space with her six-time Grammy-winning husband.