Nicole Emanuel
Founder & CEO, InterUrban ArtHouse
A painter, mother of two, writer and ”creative placemaker,” Nicole Emanuel began her career in public art and Urban Cultural Planning for Artists’ Live/Work spaces. Her first Bachelor of Arts, in Design & Industry from San Francisco State University in 1985, was followed by a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1995, where she was KCAI valedictorian. She then pursued her Master’s at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where her manuscript “Memoraphilia: a granddaughter’s memoir, the life of Jewish artist and storyteller Liouba Golschmann” won a 2009 Women’s Council grant and 2009 Hadassah–Brandeis Institute Award. Nicole’s paintings and drawings are in numerous corporate and private collections in New York, California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas and Missouri.