10 Questions with Emily Steinberg

Emily Steinberg is a Philadelphia-based multi-disciplinary artist with a focus on painting and visual narrative. She has an extensive background in illustration and comic art and has been widely published in The New Yorker and Cleaver Magazine. She is also the newest artist to join the WheelHouse Art family. Here are answers to 10 burning questions so we can all get to know each other a little better.

1.Outside of art, what hobbies do you have or how do you like to spend your free time?

Working in my garden, reading about politics or history, walking my dog in the woods

2. What do you like to listen to while working in your studio?

Born in 1964, the end of the baby boomers, Dylan and Leonard Cohen’s dense lyrical storytelling is always on….. along with a wide variety of singer song writers from the 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s…. 

3. Do you have any pets?

Gus is my 13 year old Australian Shepard. He is my fur child. 

4. What is your favorite [book, movie, or television show?

Films: The Graduate, 1967 and The Royal Tennebaums, Wes Anderson, 2002

5. What is the best concert you’ve ever been to?

Leonard Cohen - I’m Your Man, Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, 1988

6. Which famous historical person would you want to spend the day with? 

I’d like to spend the day with so many historical people. It’s hard to pick. Currently, I’d enjoying walking around Paris with Philip Guston.

7. What would be the title of your memoir?

2008-2010, I wrote and drew a 250 page graphic Novel memoir Titled Graphic Therapy: Notes From The Gap Years. Looking for a publisher.

8. Where do you go when you need fresh inspiration?

The Whissahickon Woods, near me.

9. What is your biggest pet peeve?

At the moment….. Leaf Blowers

10. What is the best advice someone has ever given you?

It Doesn’t Matter