Meet the Artist Behind Selvin Glass

Emily Selvin has devoted her life to the arts. She began her journey as a classical ballet student at the Pennsylvania Ballet in the 1970’s. She went on to study Geo-Textile Engineering and Textile Design at Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science. Following her studies in the sciences, she continued her education at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts studying printmaking, classical painting and prize winning explorations of mixed media. Her sculptural work focuses on nature vs. nurture using objects she finds in nature and combining them with toys often played with by children. Emily uses glass to illustrate the fragility of nature, the often deleterious impacts of adult humans towards nature and the memories of the innocence of youth. Her illustrative works focus on the life cycle, specifically the way we face death and global gender issues and how they impact all women.