Emme Jo Christenson Bio

Emme Jo Christenson, age 13, is an artist-author who lives in Rochester, Minnesota with her mom and dad, two German Shepherds, two Chihuahua's who rule the the house, a bonded pair of bearded dragons, three geckos, and one wise cat who only lets the Chihuahua's believe they rule anything––more than the water bowl. 

From her first week of life, Emme Jo Christenson has held a fondness for books, art, and animation. From crane games to carousels, anime to realism, any and all art forms, most art mediums remain a constant source of inspiration. 

Emme began drawing at 18 months, using walls or paper, using a wide assortment of tools including: pencils, pen, crayons, markers, paint brushes, stickers, stamps, and stamp pads she could find. 

Her favorite pastimes include: frequent trips to the book stores; meeting other artists and authors, library events; trips to the craft stores to buy new markers, pencils, pens, and paper; visiting art galleries; attending art fairs; discovering inspiring scenes; visiting old towns and events.                                                                                                                                        

From an early age on, Emme spends some of her free time outdoors hiking along with with her mom who documents the lives of bald eagles. It's in these woods, marshes, sloughs, and swamps that Emme finds interesting critters to sketch in her journal, and many of her characters have been inspired by real animals she's found in the wild. If not imagining or sketching she is busy making mud critters, collecting objects in nature, making plaster casts, and meeting the wildlife in their environment, through all four seasons.                                                     

In 2008, at eight years of age, she was given her first art space inside her mom's gallery White Wolf Creek™ in Stockholm, Wisconsin, that later expanded to an art and wild game bistro with her dad's fudge and candy in  Rochester, Minnesota, until the building sold last fall. Emme sold her artwork to consumers who lived all over the world, people from: Germany, Spain, Pakistan, New Zealand, Canada, Turkey, Australia, and Sweden as well as collectors in the USA who bought her early work, promising to keep their eye on her growth as an artist. 

Emme loves experimenting with both traditional and digital styles, switching back and forth between anime, manga, and realism. She has created dozens of her own comics, filled many sketch books with her characters, notes, and fan art that are housed in her private collection. She is presently working on, when not on other projects, her Dragons in Wonderland book using her characters she has created as the cast of characters. She is represented by her mom's publishing house, Lisa Loucks Christenson Publishing.