Ms. Emenegger has been an active leader in the artistic community since 1997. She founded McLean Fine Art in 2004. McLean Fine Art, www.mcleanfineart.com, provides arts consultancy services, visual artist career coaching, and distinctive local and national fine art exhibitions. McLean Fine Art also offers strategic and press consultation to art galleries and non-profit organizations.
Ms. Emenegger has assisted in the creation and revitalization of several art organizations and projects. She helped launch Bandini Art Gallery, Culver City, and as its director curated many of its critically recognized exhibitions. As executive director of the Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825, a landmark nonprofit serving Southern California emerging artists, she presented hundreds of lauded exhibitions and educational programs, garnering unprecedented peer, public, and press acclaim. Prior to Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825, Ms. Emenegger worked at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
Most recently Ms. Emenegger served in the exhibition department of the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena. She also co-curated an exhibition of contemporary Vietnamese artists for the Armory CenterÍs Mezzanine Gallery (April 2010).
Her art reviews and features have been published in multiple publications. She is currently a staff writer for the cultural site flavorpill.com. As managing editor, Ms. Emenegger was a key player in the editorial reinvigoration of THE Magazine Los Angeles, a large-format monthly art magazine covering the Los Angeles art scene.
Through McLean Fine Art, Ms. Emenegger has placed artwork in numerous private collections and served as art advisor and curator to several nonprofit groups. Her independent curatorial projects, including the Sunset Boulevard video billboard installation series in collaboration with the City of West Hollywood, have received write-ups and reviews in the LA Times, Artweek, Artscene, Review Magazine, among others. Ms. Emenegger has also had extensive published and televised interviews and appearances.
Ms. Emenegger has worked with hundreds of artists, providing them professional career and business counsel. She lectures extensively and has provided workshops through MOCA, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, UCLA Extension, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Flintridge Foundation, Santa Monica College, Center for Cultural Innovation, Ventura County Arts Commission, Fullerton College, Ryman Arts, Pasadena City College, the Orange County Center for the Arts, among many others.
Ms. Emenegger is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, New York.
