An Overview
Emma Amos was a postmodern African-American painter and printmaker. She worked with political and feminist collectives throughout her career, creating colorful multi-media works that talked about her identity as a Black woman.
This comic is part of a series Drawn to Art: Tales of Inspiring Women Artists that illuminates the stories of women artists in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Inspired by graphic novels, these short takes on artists’ lives were each drawn by a student-illustrator from the Ringling College of Art and Design.
We invite you to read the comic and share it with your friends and young people in your life.
