https://www.emilybasham.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-04-27 https://www.emilybasham.com/one daily 1.0 2021-04-26 https://www.emilybasham.com/about daily 0.75 2026-04-25 https://www.emilybasham.com/general-4 daily 0.75 2026-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60862e15dd4fe53edd770c73/4f302233-0ccb-4df1-941f-8b0098728247/Ophelia.jpg bio - Bio Emily Basham is an artist living in the greater Chicagoland area. She is currently exploring the figure through life drawing. She received her BFA in studio art from the University of Arizona where she was a student of James G. Davis. Ms. Basham enrolled at the University of Washington to pursue a Master of Architecture. She was awarded several scholarships, including a stipend to live in Stockholm for four months pursuing thesis research. She was able to meet and interview many artists and the architects who designed the famed Stockholm subway system. Her thesis, titled The Mythic Imagination in Public Art: Stockholm Tunnelbana Stations examines the role of public art on the stage of the city and how public art can embody cultural meaning. Ms. Basham’s professional practice was in institutional and commercial architecture in Chicago with an interest in sustainable design. She is a professor emerita of the College of DuPage Department of Architecture. Her art work continues to investigate the role of art and the poetics of shared meaning in our culture that she examined as an architect. https://www.emilybasham.com/general-1 daily 0.75 2021-05-13