Emily J. Gómez
Bio

Emily Jurkiewicz Gómez is originally from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she lives with her husband, Ernesto. She received her M.F.A. (with Distinction) in Photography from the University of Georgia in 2006 and her B.A. in Fine Arts/Photography from Loyola University Chicago in 1998. Her large format photographs document former Indian town sites throughout the Southeastern and Midwestern United States. Through her work, she questions the foundation on which America was built and how we choose to memorialize or ignore our nation’s past. She is a member of the Santee Indian Nation of South Carolina.