Joey Embers a Journey Home
  • Portfolio
    • Plein Air Painting
    • Life Drawing and Painting
    • Rooms of the Interior >
      • Shedding Light
      • Fly on the Wall
      • An Open Window
      • Finding Balance
      • Chair in the Attic
      • Yellow Chair
      • Lamp and Yellow Chair
    • Roaming House: book project >
      • Book Project >
        • Finding my Path
        • Steal the Night
        • Light House
        • Around we Go
        • Family Garden
        • Alignment
        • Together
        • Waves of Change
        • Teach
        • Rise and Shine
        • My Voice
        • Weather the Storm
        • Stand Tall
        • Tethered Beneath the Bloom
        • Echoes of the Sun
      • Practice in Place >
        • Red Barn Residency
  • Exhibitions
    • Mystery, Magic, and the Macabre Exhibition
    • Stems Plein-Air 2024
    • Bold is Back
    • SVAFC Art Show 2024
    • Matryoshka Tattoo
    • | The Clayworks at Disability Supports
    • Roy G. Biv: Color Defined
  • About
    • Joey Embers | Artist Statement
    • Resume
    • Press & Media
  • Join the Journey
    • GoFundMe #ride4work
    • Patreon
    • Saatchi Gallery
  • Contact

Practice in Place

Learning to grow with the land.

Roaming House began as a search for home — a movement through memory, landscape, and lived experience. Practice in Place emerges when that movement slows and the work commits to where it lands.

Growth does not happen in isolation. It is shaped by land, by shared labor, and by the communities that make staying possible. This practice is grounded in listening — to place, to people, and to the relationships that form over time.

Studio work, residencies, public projects, and professional roles are not separate paths, but interconnected ways of learning how landscape and community influence both process and responsibility.

Practice in Place is not a destination. It is a commitment to remain — accountable to land, shaped by community, and open to what grows slowly through care and presence.

Places where this practice has taken shape

  • Red Barn Studio Residency
  • NOTO Arts District – Core Artist Grant
  • Community-Driven Library Projects
  • Portfolio
    • Plein Air Painting
    • Life Drawing and Painting
    • Rooms of the Interior >
      • Shedding Light
      • Fly on the Wall
      • An Open Window
      • Finding Balance
      • Chair in the Attic
      • Yellow Chair
      • Lamp and Yellow Chair
    • Roaming House: book project >
      • Book Project >
        • Finding my Path
        • Steal the Night
        • Light House
        • Around we Go
        • Family Garden
        • Alignment
        • Together
        • Waves of Change
        • Teach
        • Rise and Shine
        • My Voice
        • Weather the Storm
        • Stand Tall
        • Tethered Beneath the Bloom
        • Echoes of the Sun
      • Practice in Place >
        • Red Barn Residency
  • Exhibitions
    • Mystery, Magic, and the Macabre Exhibition
    • Stems Plein-Air 2024
    • Bold is Back
    • SVAFC Art Show 2024
    • Matryoshka Tattoo
    • | The Clayworks at Disability Supports
    • Roy G. Biv: Color Defined
  • About
    • Joey Embers | Artist Statement
    • Resume
    • Press & Media
  • Join the Journey
    • GoFundMe #ride4work
    • Patreon
    • Saatchi Gallery
  • Contact