Artistry and the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge are excited to announce Under the Canopy by Emily Gray Koehler. Under the Canopy is a collection of traditional woodcuts by printmaker Emily Gray Koehler investigating the flora, fauna, and fungi found in our Midwest forests. Join the artist as she looks up through pines at the Milky Way on a crisp winter night, steps softly into a golden wood enveloped in the scent of fallen leaves, dips her toes in a wooded river at dawn, and studies the delicate ephemeral beauty of a forest floor blanketed in spring flowers. Revel in the artist’s eye as she seeks to remind us of what we have yet could so easily lose.

Emily Gray Koehler (she/her) was born and raised in Traverse City, MI. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI in 2006. After relocating to Minnesota in 2008, she opened her own print studio in Northeast Minneapolis. Koehler is a recipient of two Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grants (2015, 2020) and a Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Next Step Fund grant (2017). Koehler’s work can be found in public and private collections across the United States and in Europe. To follow Koehler’s work, visit emilygraykoehler.com and @studioegk on Instagram and Facebook.