Emily Bunker

Emily Bunker is a licensed landscape architect with a decade of experience in fabrication and community design education.  Her strong interest in land art and material research led her to make work as an artist-in-residence at several programs including the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture/Taliesin West, Art Farm, and CAC Troy. She has a masters degree in landscape architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and currently works full-time for the OLIN studio, an award winning landscape architecture office based in Philadelphia.

As the 2023-24 designer-in-residence, Emily was drawn to the changing landscape around Raymond Farm. Her ongoing project looks more closely at the effects of ecological death and climate grief through a combination of writing, video, and woodworking. This past fall she worked with Charlotte Raymond to locate and plant 14 Metasequoia trees on the family farm—a gift from the Nakashima family. In addition she has taken an ISA class in logging and in March 2024 felled a large Ash tree on the property affected by the Emerald Ash Borer. She worked with a local sawyer to prepare the lumber for the next phase of the project. She looks forward to sharing her work when the tree dries and she can secure a place to work with the wood in Philadelphia.

Emily has earned a Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity grant to enable her work at the Raymond Farm Center for the Living Arts.