Alexandra Emberley is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator whose practice investigates relationships between subjectivity, nature, technology, and materiality through textiles and garment-based projects. Her installations draw on myth, fable, found objects, ornamentation, detritus, and personal memory, to create immersive and tactile installations investigating materiality, embodied experience, and the archive.

Alexandra is currently working on a new project funded by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. This project emerges from a broader investigation into the intersections of handcraft, digital craftsmanship, material intelligence, and emerging technologies. Utilizing hand and digital embroidery, generative design, and AR, Alexandra is exploring how AI can meaningfully engage with the tactile, structural, and sensory dimensions of materials and human perception. She is particularly interested in how motion capture, 3D scanning, and haptic feedback technologies can translate the physicality of gesture and materials into digital realms—and back again. This inquiry considers how emerging digital practices can function as innovative forms of autobiography and visual art, fostering deeper attunement to the embodied experiences of memory and subjectivity.

With over sixteen years of experience in post-secondary education, Alexandra has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in drawing, printmaking, interdisciplinary studio and professional development, as well as liberal studies courses in film studies, visual and material culture, craft, and creative research methodologies. As Chair of the School of Craft and Emerging Media at AUArts (2015–2018), she played a central role in establishing the institution's first graduate program, an MFA in Craft Media.

Alexandra holds an Hons BA in Philosophy and Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto, an interdisciplinary PhD from York University's Faculty of Education, and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Alberta. In 2017, she completed professional certification in couture embroidery at École Lesage in Paris, before earning an MFA in Textiles from Rhode Island School of Design (2023).

Her work has been supported by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Nova Scotia Arts Council, and HRM Open Projects Program, among others. Alexandra's numerous accolades include the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Graduate MFA Student Award (2012), the Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship (2012), and the Rosanne Somerson Scholarship (2022, 2023). As a Graduate Fellow in Costume and Textiles at the RISD Museum (2022–2023), she collaborated on the "Sensing Fashion" exhibit (2023). Alexandra’s projects have been exhibited internationally in Canada, the US, England, Japan, Slovakia, and Scotland, and she has completed residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, CAAF in Calgary, Point Pleasant Park in Halifax, and the Bentlage Cultural and Museum Centre in Germany.

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