Emily Schroeder Willis received her BFA from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and her MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has been an artist-in-residence/visiting artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana, the Zentrum für Keramik in Berlin, Germany, the Alberta College of Art and Design in Canada and Watershed Center for the Ceramics Arts in Maine.  Her work has been exhibited in the Dubai Design Fair in the UAE, the Kansas City Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, the Ohio Craft Museum in Wooster, the Ralph Arnold Gallery in Chicago, and many others.  Currently, she lives in Chicago where she is an Assistant Professor, Adjunct at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.