Emily Carpenter-Munroe is an Oregon native, born in Corvallis, Oregon in 1995. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon, attending Portland State University as a Graphic Design Major. Emily has had an interest in art since she was a small child and has exercised her creative abilities in almost every art form from printmaking to painting and drawing, clay sculpting to metal work, from animation to video editing, photography, graphic design, illustration and even pattern design. Her love for art has never been contained to any one art form and she enjoys the challenge of working with new and unique materials and finding ways to use materials in an eclectic manner.
Emily originally found her calling in graphic design after her first year at PrattMWP institute in upstate New York, which has a strong and intense foundational program that follows the Bauhaus core curriculum of immersive training in all art forms before picking an area of focus. She began at Pratt as a Fine Arts Major but quickly switched to a Communications Design major after her exposure to graphic design and typography.
In 2017 Emily started her own small business called SaintJawn Official that operates as a design company and that she continues to slowly expand as she gains experience and skills in the graphic design, marketing, and business fields. Her work with SaintJawn focuses mainly on the female African-American experience, oppression, erasure of cultures and history, and people of color. Within the Euro-centric school of art she has been studying in, she does her best to not adhere to Euro-centric aesthetics and ideas of "good" art or design. She is dedicated to using art to speak for her experiences and her aesthetics that are inspired by other black artists and artists of color. For that reason her work tends to focus greatly on color, texture, subject matter, voice, and unapologetic black thought.
Emily is a recent college graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Art + Design form Portland State University.
