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1938 Atlanta, Georgia - 2020 Bedford, New Hampshire. Known for: Modernist figurative imagery and portrait painting, printmaking, collage, textile art.
Emma Amos, born in 1938 in Atlanta, Georgia, reflects her African-American heritage through paintings, prints and weavings that explore political and social issues of Black life. Amos received a B.A.... Read full biography
Emma Amos, born in 1938 in Atlanta, Georgia, reflects her African-American heritage through paintings, prints and weavings that explore political and social issues of Black life. Amos received a B.A. degree in 1958 from Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio; a B.F.A. degree in 1959 in England at... Read full biography
Emma Amos, born in 1938 in Atlanta, Georgia, reflects her African-American heritage through paintings, prints and weavings that explore political and social issues of Black life. Amos received a B.A. degree in 1958 from Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio; a B.F.A. degree in 1959 in England at the London Central School; and an M.A. degree in 1966 from New York University on New York City. In her own teaching career, Amos has taught at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, since 1980. Since 1987,... Read full biography
Emma Amos, born in 1938 in Atlanta, Georgia, reflects her African-American heritage through paintings, prints and weavings that explore political and social issues of Black life. Amos received a B.A. degree in 1958 from Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio; a B.F.A. degree in 1959 in England at the London Central School; and an M.A. degree in 1966 from New York University on New York City. In her own teaching career, Amos has taught at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, since 1980. Since 1987, she has also held a leadership position at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in Maine. Emma Amos's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Newark Museum, New Jersey; Minnesota Museum of Art, Minneapolis;... Read full biography
Emma Amos, born in 1938 in Atlanta, Georgia, reflects her African-American heritage through paintings, prints and weavings that explore political and social issues of Black life. Amos received a B.A. degree in 1958 from Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio; a B.F.A. degree in 1959 in England at the London Central School; and an M.A. degree in 1966 from New York University on New York City. In her own teaching career, Amos has taught at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, since 1980. Since 1987, she has also held a leadership position at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in Maine. Emma Amos's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Newark Museum, New Jersey; Minnesota Museum of Art, Minneapolis; Dade County Museum of Art, Miami, Florida; United States Embassy, London; and Skandinaviska Enskilda Bankn, Stockholm, Sweden. Amo... Read full biography