Artist: Emily Lewis

Emily Lewis (who is also known as Emily Strange) started painting in HomeFront’s ArtSpace in Jan 2009. ArtSpace is a place where people can express their feelings through art. Painting helped Emily release stress and anger bottled up from her past. In June 2009 she became an intern for HomeFront’s ArtSpace through the Bonner AmeriCorps program in Princeton, New Jersey. Since then Emily has been in many art exhibits with HomeFront in Princeton, Lawrenceville, Trenton, and Hightstown NJ. She has also shown work and volunteered with Artworks Trenton. She started as a painter doing mixed media work with acrylic paint. Emily graduated from Parsons School of Design in May of 2014 she was on a full scholarship studying fine arts, photography, and film and is working as a photographer in New York City. Emily is currently attending graduate classes at Parsons School of Design, and working in the Metal Shop at Parsons.