Lenore Emery (May 20, 1926 – March 11, 2021) was an American visual artist based in New Orleans. She is primarily known for her large-scale wind-powered kinetic sculpture and public artworks that are inspired by the forces of nature. Since 1972, all of her art has been kinetic and activated by water, magnets, motors, and wind. In 1956, she was a charter member of the Orleans Gallery, located at 527 Royal Street, which was the city's first collective artist-run and operated contemporary art space. Early life and education Emery's father was Hungarian and died when she was three years old. Although the family home was based in Larchmont, New York, Lin's mother spent the winter season in Florida. This meant shuttling between a fall and springtime school in suburban New York and a winter school in Florida. Between 1935–42, her early childhood education included the Edgewood Rudolf Steiner School, Rye Country Day School, Palm Beach private school, West Palm Beach public school and Ursuline Convent School. She received private lessons in drawing, French, Latin and German. By the age of sixteen, Emery legally changed her first name from "Leonor" to "Lin" and entered college. Her university-level studies between 1942–45 took place at Columbia University, Syracuse University, University of Mexico, the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, and University of Chicago. After that point she worked for Chicago Sun-Times newspaper. In 1945 she moved to New Orleans and worked as fashion copy writer. Artistic training Emery's studies moved overseas to Paris between 1947–50 at Cours de la Civilisation Francaise at the Sorbonne. She also attended evening figure drawing sessions at la Grande Chaumière in the Montparnasse arts district. Around this time she visited New Mexico and exhibited paintings at Harwood Museum, Taos. She returned to Paris in 1949 and studied sculpture in the studio of Ossip Zadkine. Afterward she returned to New Orleans and began working in clay and plaster. From 1951–52 she is enrolled at the New York Sculpture Center, first working in clay and pewter along with classmates Dorothy Dehner and Louise Nevelson. She then learned welding and casting, and exhibited with Herbert Ferver, David Hare, Seymour Lipton and David Smith. Settling back into New Orleans in 1953, she turned her French Quarter apartment into a fully equipped metal working studio. Career in the visual arts Lin Emery's early work was figurative. She was commissioned to portray life sized