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Birth
1938 (Atlanta, Georgia)
Death
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New York/New Jersey
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modernist imagery and portrait painting, printmaking
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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 (showing 500 of 1655 characters). |
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