{"id":358,"date":"2014-09-23T20:26:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T20:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/?p=358"},"modified":"2020-07-01T17:31:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:31:33","slug":"personal-history-amze-emmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/2014\/09\/23\/personal-history-amze-emmons\/","title":{"rendered":"Amze Emmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-358-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Amzeeeee.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Amzeeeee.mp3\">https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Amzeeeee.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Amze-Emmons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-404 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Amze-Emmons-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"Amze-Emmons\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Amze-Emmons-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Amze-Emmons-520x450.jpg 520w, https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Amze-Emmons-260x225.jpg 260w, https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Amze-Emmons.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Amze Emmons\" href=\"http:\/\/amzeemmons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amze Emmons<\/a><\/strong> is a Philadelphia-based, multi-disciplinary artist with a background in drawing and printmaking. His images evoke a sense of\u00a0magical\/minimal realism inspired by architectural illustration, comic books, cartoon language, information graphics, news footage, consumer\u00a0packaging, and instruction manuals.<\/p>\n<p>Emmons received a BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University and a MA and MFA from the University of Iowa. He has held solo exhibitions in 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 non-profit institutions. 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 a Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. His work has received critical attention in The Huffington Post, Itsnicethat.com, Coolhunting.com, New American Paintings, as well as many other print publications. He is currently an Associate Professor at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. Emmons is also a co-founder and co-contributing editor of the popular art blog, <a title=\"Printeresting\" href=\"http:\/\/Printeresting.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Printeresting.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click to view Amze Emmons&#8217; work in <a title=\"The Print Center Gallery Store: Amze Emmons\" href=\"http:\/\/printcenterstore.myshopify.com\/collections\/emmons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Print Center Gallery Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amze Emmons is a Philadelphia-based, multi-disciplinary artist with a background in drawing and printmaking. His images evoke a sense of\u00a0magical\/minimal realism inspired by architectural illustration, comic books, cartoon language, information graphics, news footage, consumer\u00a0packaging, and instruction manuals. Emmons received a &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/2014\/09\/23\/personal-history-amze-emmons\/\" aria-label=\"Amze Emmons\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-stories","category-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10411,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/10411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}