- Also known as
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Emma Amos
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primary name: Amos, Emma
- Details
- individual; printmaker; American (USA); Female
- Life dates
- 1937-2020
- Biography
- Painter, printmaker and weaver; born and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia where she attended segregated public schools; studied at Antioch University at Yellow Springs, Ohio, spending her fourth year abroad at the Central School of Art in London; after graduating BA from Antioch, she returned to the Central School to obtain a diploma in etching in 1959; in 1960 she moved to New York and began working in sewing, textiles and quilting as well as making illustrations for 'Sesame Street' magazine; in the 1960s she also joined 'Spiral', the black artist's group that included Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis and Charles Alson, where she was the only female member; from 1974 she taught at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts and from 1980 at the Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University until her retirement in 2008.
- Bibliography
- Shawnya L. Harris (ed.), 'Emma Amos: Color Odyssey', (exh. cat.), with essays by Shawnya L. Harris, Lisa Farrington, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Laurel Garber, Kay Walkingstick and Phoebe Wolfskill, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute; and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2021-22 (monographic catalogue)
