Emily K. Small works at the intersections of textiles, art history, and social formation. 

She holds an MA in Art History and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University in the City of New York and a BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design.

From 2022–2023, she was a Curatorial Fellow in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program (ISP), In 2022 she was a Curatorial Fellow at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery. In 2020 completed a year-long residency at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn.

Small currently serves as Co-Director at Climate Control, an artist project space in San Francisco, and works in textile design and archives with Levi Strauss & Co.

She has curated and co-organized exhibitions and public programs at institutions including Climate Control, 500 Capp Street, Artists Space, the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, the e-flux screening room, Espace Niemeyer in Paris, and the Textile Arts Center.

Her writing has been published by KQED, Variable West, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Climate Control, and the MODA Critical Review at Columbia University.


emilyksmall @ gmail . com