Emily Freiman has called Napa Valley her home for over 25 years. She is a retired Art Therapist, past AANV- Art Association Napa Valley-President, past AANV newsletter editor, past NVW-Napa Valley Writers-board member, active published writer, past writing/artmaking course facilitator, and active visual artist, creating fine and applied arts. Her mediums are silk, oil, acrylic, and watercolor, pen and ink. She enjoys hand painting silk scarves and other applied arts items, as well as representational and abstract canvas works. Four giclees of her “Hot Pink Fuchsia” watercolor hang in the historic Napa River Inn. Currently, she is exploring geometric abstract pattern paintings in gouache/casein mediums (https://emilyanndesigns.blogspot.com. One of Emily’s paintings embellishes the NVW “De Vine Write” newsletter online (https://mailchi.mp/aadc4ea50174/napa-valley-writers-october-2018-newsletter-15549617). Two of her poems are published in NVW’s Anthology titled “Third Harvest”. You can find Emily creating ekphrastic works, combining art with writing here:(https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6517487276293193440/955085442825275384). She is working on a volume of poetry, illustrated with her artwork, as well as an illustrated workbook for facilitators, based on her “Invite the Muse” writing/artmaking course. Visual Artist Blog site: https://emilyanndesigns.blogspot.com/ Blog site: https://trustyourcrookedeye.blogspot.com/?view=magazine