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Emmas Amos (painter)

According to her Artist's Statement, "It is important to me to point out that both of my college-educated parents had fathers who were born slaves." http://emmaamos.com/about/statement/

from Oral Histories Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-emma-amos-11451

her first ‘show’ was through Judy Alice at the New Arts Gallery in Atlanta. (1959?)

upon arriving in NY she taught at the Dalton School.