Emma Rose Brown

Emma (b. 1991) is a Queens-based multidisciplinary artist, educator, and oral historian working across documentary film, video installation, and performance. Guided by the belief that art can intervene in the historical record, her practice explores physical memory, relationality, and care.

She is a three-time SU CASA artist-in-residence through the Queens Council on the Arts, and has presented work at DOC NYC, Friedman Gallery, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Judson Church, Movement Research, New York Live Arts, Ridgewood Presbyterian Church, and The School of Making Thinking.

In 2025, she was the Make Space Oral History Fellow at Hunter College, where she helped develop Radical Atmospheres, a place-based AR project centered on the Young Lords in East Harlem. Emma is the Co-Director of the Community Library of Voice and Sound, and consults on projects including the ACORN Oral History Project, Our Steps, Our Stories: An Irish Dance Legacy Archive, and Brooklyn Public Library’s Heritage Ambassador Program. Emma has an MFA in Integrated Media Art from Hunter College.

At Woordward, she will be make progress on her first feature length film that follows members of the FDNY as they participate in a trauma therapy workshop.