Art Portrayals in Wood

Emily Grace King is an artist living and working in the Denver Metro area. While Emily works in a variety of mediums, her current focus is on creating encaustic monotype assemblies using beeswax from her backyard hives. The pursuit of creating her own artistic medium inspired Emily to learn to keep bees and led her to transform her outdoor space into a haven for pollinators, planting and cultivating the raw material the bees need to create wax for her artwork.

​In addition to her art practice, Emily is the Galleries Exhibition Manager at the Arvada Center where she oversees three art galleries totaling over 10,000 square feet and the Arvada History Museum, acts as the department's registrar, and organizes the Center's popular Holiday Fine Art Market.

​In 2016, Emily founded the much-beloved community project Art Drop Arvada. Working with artists and art-lovers throughout Metro Denver, Art Drop Arvada creates interactive, grassroots events in public spaces that bring free, hyper-local art to anyone willing to hunt for it.

Emily serves her city as Chair of the Arvada Arts and Culture Commission. She is a strong advocate in the community for public art and for civic investment in local artists at all stages of their careers.

​Emily's passion for endless experimentation, learning, and DIY means she is often watching hours of YouTube videos on how to do something far outside of her wheelhouse before trying it out for herself. She loves to share her imperfect ideas and projects online in hopes that someone else will learn from her ideas, improve on them, and continue the internet's collective evolution of weird, artsy projects moving forward.