Emma Amos Exhibition
Flomenhaft
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From 1980 to 2008 Emma Amos was Professor II and Chair of Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She lived most of her life in New York City but grew up in the South, and says that images often come to her of words like sass and back talk that describe the attitudes of people who actively resisted oppression.
At age twenty-two she moved to New York and taught at the Dalton School for a year before she began work as a weaver/designer for Dorothy Liebes. This led to her love for fabric, inspiring the borders she has used in her work ever since. She was trained in etching in London, and later worked in Leo Calapai’s New York atelier and Bob Blackburn’s printmaking workshop. In 1965 she earned a master’s degree in art education from New York University. Amos was the only woman in the group known as Spiral, invited by Hale Woodruff and included Romare Bearden, and she participated in the Feminist Heresies magazine.
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from January 14, 2010 to February 27, 2010