Emily Free Wilson

Emily Free Wilson is an artist, potter and entrepreneur. She is the owner of Free Ceramics and makes pottery with her husband Matt Wilson. She was born in Anchorage, Alaska and grew up in Roseburg, Oregon. In college she received a running scholarship and a BFA in ceramics and sculpture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  After college Emily moved to Helena, Montana for an internship and worked with other galleries and museums until she acquired a position as Gallery Director at the Archie Bray Foundation, which she worked for over 10 years.  In 2009, with Matt and her brother Bobby Free, she started her pottery business Free Ceramics. In 2015 Emily left the Bray to work full time with her husband in their studio and art center. Emily and Matt had converted a funeral home into an art center, creating a space for community to gather, concerts to be enjoyed and 9 multi-media artists to have private studios.

Emily Free Wilson