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Meet Emilie Parker — a teacher, artist, and soul guide living in a world of art and community in Monrovia, California. With hands in clay and heart in truth, I invite adults to slow down, center up, and create from within. This is my gallery. Every art work tells a story and connects us with a deeper part of ourselves.
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GalleryEven though I spent most of my life as educator. I feel I was born an artist to my core. My art spans my lifetime and includes sculpture, ceramics, photography, and painting.
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ClayArt Pottery WestI also run a business: Providing sculpture and pottery classes for my little corner of LA County. I offer more than ceramics skill-building—I provide a space to unwind, unplug, and reconnect with your creativity.
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Hands in Clay, Heart in TruthAn Artists Adventure — Emilie Parker
My life has been a long, spiraling journey of transformation—an adventure shaped by resilience, loss, curiosity, and the healing power of art. I began life with birth defects and five surgeries before the age of twelve and the early loss of my brother at age 11 to a heart defect. By fourteen, I had also lost my grandmother who helped raise me, and by twenty-four, my father. Each loss etched depth into my soul and awakened a lifelong search for meaning, beauty, and connection. It took me 13 years to complete an MS in graphic design. I couldn’t stop taking college credits in art. I worked while attending college, because I was raising my two little girls mostly on my own. Along the way, I built a career as, first a graphic designer, then as a health educator and project manager, supporting my family through decades. Finally getting an MS degree in business. My five marriages—to scientists, mathematicians, and artists—reflect my lifelong fascination with both logic and imagination, the tangible and the transcendent. But it's been a roller coaster of adventures that has been my life -- some years a nightmare, other's full of mountains to climb. Today, at over 70 years old, with my soulmate, Douglass, I am living my dream as a full-time artist, sculptor, and teacher. My studio is a place of healing, community, and joy—a space where clay becomes a language for the spirit. Each sculpture created carries the energy of transformation: the alchemy of grief into gratitude, form into flow, and discipline into freedom. Through my art, I celebrate the sacred rhythm of life—its cycles of breaking and remaking, its wild intelligence, and its power to reconnect us with the creative pulse that lives in all things. I am profoundly grateful for this season of life, surrounded by family, students, friends, art and my husband of over 20 years — Douglass, and the quiet blessings that arrive every day through the work of my hands. |
Emilie Parker
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My creative project over the last 5 years is building a place for all of us in San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, (Monrovia, Pasadena, Altadena, Arcadia, West Covina, Glendora) a place to stop the madness and to retreat each week back to our true selves for a while through a hands-on creative experience. And I invite others, all over the world, to come once per year to my art retreats.
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