Emma Amos was an artist who challenged racism and sexism through her art and was active during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. This survey exhibition will include approximately 60 works produced over the last 60 years. Born in 1938, in Atlanta, Georgia, Emma Amos is a distinguished painter and printmaker. She is best known for her bold and colorful mixed-media paintings that create visual tapestries in which she examines the intersection of race, class, gender and privilege in both the art world and society at large.
Museum admission remains free but requires timed tickets, available on the GMOA website.
Emma Amos was an artist who challenged racism and sexism through her art and was active during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. This survey exhibition will include approximately 60 works produced over the last 60 years. Born in 1938, in Atlanta, Georgia, Emma Amos is a distinguished painter and printmaker. She is best known for her bold and colorful mixed-media paintings that create visual tapestries in which she examines the intersection of race, class, gender and privilege in both the art world and society at large.
Museum admission remains free but requires timed tickets, available on the GMOA website.
