Emily Thomas

Emily grew up in home that valued creativity. Her father helped start the St. George Art Festival and was in charge of all the art programs for the city of St. George. This provided her the opportunity to take many art classes from community artists. She moved to American Fork her senior year and she continued taking art classes and was lucky enough to have Mary Ann Judd Johnson as her high school art teacher. Mary Ann encouraged her as she developed artistically and helped her get an art scholarship to Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. She attended Snow College for a year and eventually  earned her Art/English Education degree from Utah Valley University and began teaching English, Creative Writing and Art. She has taught for the past 14 years and teaches only art now. Although she enjoys her students and teaching, she also loves creating her own art. Over the past decade she has fallen in love with watercolors. She loves the vibrancy and fluidity of watercolor and how each painting is a new adventure. She is a two-star member of the Utah Watercolor Association and a member of the OPA and the Midway Art Association. When she is not teaching, Emily travels to plein air painting competitions and also paints in her studio as often as she can.