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Emily Clanton

Emily Clanton works across public art and participatory projects for civic, educational and healthcare settings. Her practice combines material engagement with facilitation and documentation. Many Hands, Light Work, completed in 2025, is an exterior tile mural at the Medical University of South Carolina’s James W. Colbert Education Center and Library in Charleston. The artist identifies the Patient and Family Advisory Council as commissioner, MUSC Arts in Healing as manager and Earthbuilt as the fabrication partner for the rammed-earth tiles. Her portfolio also documents Springtime in TR, a 2017 mural in Travelers Rest, South Carolina, executed with student artists through Furman University’s MayX program, and The Ties That Bind Asheville, a participatory fabric installation in Asheville’s River Arts District in 2025. These examples retain their distinct materials, partners and settings without presenting arts-in-health training as proof of clinical outcomes.

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public murals, participatory installation, community art
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