Discipline: Visual Art – printmaking

Amze Emmons

Discipline: Visual Art – printmaking
Region: Philadelphia, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2005, 2016

Amze Emmons is a visual artist. While at MacDowell, he worked on a new suite of prints and drawings informed by his research of material culture, print history, street furniture, and low-tech design and architecture.

Studios

Putnam

Amze Emmons worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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