Southern Plains Indian Museum, Anadarko, Oklahoma

For her drawings, Emerson employs various mediums including pen and ink, charcoal, graphite, pastel, and conte. Paintings are limited to either acrylic or oil. Although she paints skillfully in primarily low key and revering touches of red, Emerson considers herself foremost a draftsman. Her subjects range from the human figure, which she has studied extensively, to portraits, to semi-abstractions of “mixed metaphors” that are at once organic and symbolic.