Emmanuelle Wambach received her Bachelor’s in art from Swarthmore College in 2008, her Post Baccalaureate Certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2009, and her Master of Fine Arts in ceramics and sculpture  from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2012. Emmanuelle moved to Pittsburgh in 2014 and became part of Pittsburgh’s vibrant arts community, joining organizations such as Union Project, Origins, Women of Visions, and the Creative Business Accelerator. In 2016 Emmanuelle traveled to Japan as part of a ceramic artist residency. She returned to Pittsburgh with a renewed love of ceramics and a new motivation to create and explore her identity as a queer, Black, female artist.

In 2021 Emmanuelle officially formed Emmanuelle Ceramics LLC to share her story and work with a wider customer base. This love and desire to create and share new work led her into her past. Through her mother’s love of gardening, lace, and fabrics, she discovered her own passion for lace and its history. This breakthrough inspires her current body of handcrafted, lace textured, functional and decorative,ceramic work. Each piece of lace has a story. Through clay, Emmanuelle takes that story which normally fades, and tatters over time, and makes it permanent. She receives the lace from friends, customers, antique shops, and online. The breaking of the glazes over the lace pattern accentuates the natural beauty of the clay underneath. Together the fabric texture impressions, clay, and glaze, capture a moment in time; like putting a memory in stone. Emmanuelle creates heirlooms, gardens and memories that can last lifetimes and that can be used to create new memories.