11/23/2025
Only 8 days until Kennan Terrace Art in the Yard 2025! Today's first featured artist is Emily Wright!
Emily Wright (she/her) AKA e.lois wright is a SC native, Lander University Graduate (B.A./English) and a budding local artisan in the LGBTQ community in Columbia, SC.
Emily is an extroverted spirit whose passion for Life comes wrapped up in a myriad of colorful expressions. A "wordsmith on an artisan's path", her life-goal is to explore and share with others how to be the very best version of Self, simultaneously allowing the best version of the Collective.
Forever an eager, hands-on student, Emily is no stranger to trying new hobbies and learning new skills. In her early creative years, Emily was drawn to decoupage and creating unique and bold jewelry from broken and discarded necklaces and found pieces of glass and metal, selling her work under the name
"Balanced Distractions"
Over the last twenty years, Emily has expanded her media to include acrylic and oil, decor with found objects, up-cycled furniture, yard art, handmade journals, photography and poetry. Theater with costuming and make-up may be her favorite pastime of all time--especially, the Art and Joy of DRAG, creatively transforming Self into familiar celebrity characters, like the saucy Jack Sparrow and Purple Rain's PRINCE. However, helping others shape-shift is her truest delight!
In the last year, as a lover of music and all of its innate healing qualities, Emily has begun learning the hand pan and sharing original compositions with her new instrument, a unique steel drum tuned to 432 hz--love frequency-- intended for offering sound clearing and moments of deep meditation.
The general consensus: Emily loves Love...to create it, feel it, gift it, receive--to be it.
"Be Love"