Associate Professor and Program Head of Printmaking
Printmaking, Visual Studies
Amze J. Emmons
- Email: amze.emmons@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9126
- Office: Tyler 260C
- Website: www.amzeemmons.com
Amze Emmons is a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in printmaking and drawing. His research interests include wandering and noticing; the politics of architecture; vernacular design; everyday evidence of community; games, play, and generative systems; and tracking the ways Print and Material Cultural history inform our current digital age.
He has held solo exhibitions in Austin, Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco, among other locations. His work has been included in group exhibitions in innovative commercial galleries, artist-run spaces and museums. Emmons has received numerous awards including a Fellowship in the Arts from the Independence Foundation; an Individual Creative Artist Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Arts Council; and MacDowell Fellowships. His work has received critical attention in Art in Print magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer and New American Paintings, as well as many other publications.
Emmons was also a co-founder of the popular art group, Printeresting.org. He continues to write critically, curate and jury exhibitions and give public lectures responding to the state of printmaking and visual culture.
MA and MFA, University of Iowa, 2002
BFA, Ohio Wesleyan, 1996