Emilie Baltz makes Experiences.

Her work reconnects self and society to the wonders of the human body, revealing (sometimes strange) new perspectives on everyday life. She uses the five senses to tell stories that deepen connection through embodiment and plays with how the design of sensory experience affects human perception and behavior.

In the early 2000s, her work pioneered the discipline of food design in America and grew over two decades to innovate as one of the leading international voices in multisensory experience design. Emilie’s work has been featured in the Museum of the Future in Dubai, NEW MUSEUM, IDFA DocLab, Sundance New Frontiers, Simons Foundation, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Liberty Science Center, Museum of Sex, as well as supported by patrons, brands and communities that believe that art, design and imagination can be used to positively transform society from the inside, out.

As an award-winning artist, designer, author and public speaker her appearances include TEDx, DLD, PSFK Conference, Ignite Conference, Creative Mornings, TODAY Show, NBC, Wall Street Journal, D-CRIT and more.

Emilie is based in New York City and is a founding member of NEW INC, the first museum led incubator hosted at the New Museum. She is part of the founding faculty of the School of Visual Arts Products of Design MFA program, as well as the founder of the first Food Design Studio at Pratt Institute.

Baltz is the author of the award-winning “L.O.V.E FOODBOOK“, recipient of Best First Cookbook in the World at the Prix Gourmand held annually in the Louvre, Paris; as well as the nationally featured cookbook, “Junk Foodie: 51 Delicious Recipes for the Lowbrow Gourmand“. Her photography work can be viewed here or here.

She is a Sundance Story Lab New Frontiers Fellow; co-recipient of the 2018 IDFA DocLab Best Immersive Non-Fiction Award for EAT TECH KITCHEN, a playful performance that critiques human behavior through the mash-up of food, technology and absurdity.

Emilie holds a Bachelors Degree in Film Studies from Vassar College and a Masters Degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute.

From 1994-2000, she trained intensively in contemporary dance and classical voice, learning what it means to connect, listen and harmonize with others.

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