Emily Arthur, Associate Professor, Vilas Associate Award, Chair of Printmaking UW-Madison Art Department, Faculty Affiliate to the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE), Faculty Affiliate to American Indian Studies
Emily Arthur is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and serves as Chair of Printmaking. Arthur received an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and has served as a Fellow at the Barnes Foundation for Advanced Theoretical and Critical Research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Arthur also attended the Rhode Island School of Design and the Tamarind Institute of Lithography at the University of New Mexico.
Arthur’s work is included in several national and international permanent collections including the Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN; Denver Art Museum, Denver CO, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM; and the Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, CA. She is also the recipient of a Florida Artist Enhancement Grant provided by the State of Florida and the National Endowment for the Arts, and is awarded to the Notable Women in the Arts, National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Within the history of fine art and the history of science, printmaking has been used to publish botanical and ornithological illustrations for the colonizing purposes of naming, identification, capture, and collection.
Arthur will describe her collaboration with zoologist and their work to protect threatened sub species of the California gnatcatcher from land development. Arthur’s contemporary works on paper seeks to change that perspective from subjugation of the land to a forward thinking perspective of how plant and animal species carry the story of human impact on environment.