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Prominent African-American artist Emma Amos will give a public lecture and interact with students and faculty during a campus residency today and tomorrow.
Amos will give a talk about her work and influences 4 p.m. today in room 108 of the Williams Center for the Arts. A public reception in the lobby will follow.
Her visit is sponsored by the David L., Sr. and Helen J. Temple Visiting Lecture Series Fund, established by Riley K. Temple ’71, which supports the work of artists, curators, and art historians. It is coordinated by the Experimental Printmaking Institute, which is directed by Curlee Holton, associate professor of art.
Amos graduated from Antioch College in Ohio after spending her senior year abroad at the Central School of Art in London. She received her M.A. at New York University in 1966 and began teaching at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 1980.
From 1964 to 1966, Amos was a member of the “The Spiral,” a New York City group that also included important art figures such as Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff, and Charles Alston. Amos also worked with Robert Blackburn at the Printmaking Workshop in New York City from 1964 until 1982.
Amos completed The Sky’s The Limit, a mosaic ceiling at Intermediate School 90 in Manhattan in 1991. In 1996, she designed the International Olympics poster for the Atlanta Corporation of the Olympics. She received the James Van Der Zee Award, presented at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia in 2002. Past honorees for this award include Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Benny Andrews, and Bettye Saar.
Amos’ work has been exhibited at Minneapolis Institute of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. It is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
For more information about Amos’ visit, contact the Experimental Printmaking Institute at 610-330-5592.