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Emily Hsu

Artist’s Statement

Emily Hsu, 17, a junior at John P. Stevens High School in Edison, New Jersey, is an ardent artist and poet. She aspires to yoke art with nature, poetry, architecture, and physics to enact powerful dialogues across boundaries. Her artworks have been recognized at national level by Congressional Art Competition, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, The Adroit Journal, Ned Smith, Endangered Species, Junior Duck Stamp, and State Fish Art Contests. Her “Falling Up” is now displayed in the US Capitol’s Cannon Tunnel in Washington D.C. Her “Thirst” has been forever collected by the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art in Pennsylvania. 

At John P. Stevens High School, Emily is the President of the National Art Honor Society; the Art Editor of The Hawkeye newspaper; the Art Editor and staff writer for the INK! Literary Magazine; a photographer for the Regalis Yearbook Club; and a poet in Slam Poetry Club; a member of Latin Club and Greenhouse Club. Beyond school, she also attended the Kenyon Young Writers Workshop, Interlocken Performance Poetry, Columbia University’s Creative Writing, The New York Times Summer Academy’s Photojournalism as Art, Smith College’s Sustainable Futures, Columbia Climate School’s Climate Impacts, and Carnegie Mellon’s Architecture Program. She adores nature, loves adventures, explores cultures, and wishes to make an impact with her brush, pen, and voice.