Emily De Boer (she/her) is a disabled artist, athlete and activist from Richmond BC. She holds a Master of Fine Arts (2024) and BFA (2022) with a major in Critical and Cultural Practices from Emily Carr University. As well as the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification (2025) through the University of Alberta. She is an interdisciplinary artist working with ceramics, various methods of printmaking, analog and digital photography, installation, sculpture and collage to respond to her environment. With a contemporary approach to worldbuilding Emily engages chance, glitch theory, the disability concept to misfit, her embodied knowledge and education in accessibility to construct radically inclusive spaces. Dedicated to her community and disability justice, Emily’s practice articulates the precarity required to navigate the oppressive barriers within the built environment. Her practice is a catharsis for the discomfort of exclusion. She channels the same excessive energy required to navigate the inaccessible world around her into constructions of her own, where unexpected, often unwanted, glitches act as structural integrity.