Emily Blumenfeld
Partner, Via Partnership, LLP

Emily Blumenfeld has fifteen years of experience as a public art consultant, curator and art historian. She has significant expertise in strategic planning, artist selection, media relations, and working with artists to ensure the maximum impact of their work.

A founding Partner of Via Partnership, Emily co-authored the public art master plan for Allen, Texas and managed the revision of Metro Arts in Transit’s Policies and Procedures, a document that she originally co-authored in 1999. She developed a procedure and managed the artist selection and involvement for the New I-64, a highway design project for the Missouri Department of Transportation. Emily also developed operating procedures and opening event activities for the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. She managed the commissioning of work by seven artists for Arts in Transit for the Cross County MetroLink Extension. She completed a public art plan for the Utilities and Environmental Protection department of Calgary co-authored by Cliff Garten of Cliff Garten Studio and Mark Crisp of CH2M Hill that will maximize the expressive potential of their water infrastructure. She has also developed a public art and culture plan for Lambert Airport in St. Louis and is currently working on a public art master plan for the City of Chesterfield, Missouri. She is managing large-scale public art projects for EnCana Corporation in Calgary, AB and for the New National’s Ballpark in Washington, DC as a consultant to the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Emily’s experience includes six years as Community Art Manager for Metro Arts in Transit in St. Louis, where she managed the site-specific public art program, the public poetry program, and community art programs. In addition, she has acted as curator and educator for the History Division of St. Louis County, and consulted with Chesterfield Arts Inc. to develop a working team focused on highlighting arts and culture in the City of Chesterfield, Missouri.

Emily received a Masters of Arts in Art History and Archaeology from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.