Kate Emlen Biography
Kate Emlen is a landscape and still life painter who spends her time between Norwich, Vermont and Brooksville, Maine. Her Kirkland College (now Hamilton College) BA in literature and printmaking led to work in book design and letterpress printing. After completing an MFA in Graphic Design at Yale, she was Design Director at the Hopkins Center for Performing Arts at Dartmouth College. Later, she was a consultant in graphic design until moving to painting full time.
She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont; the International School of Art, Montecastello di Vibio in Umbria, Italy; the Klots International Program for Artists of the Maryland Institute College of Art in Brittany, France; Art Center Padula in Padula, Italy; and Art Week at Great Spruce Head Island. Emlen’s work is exhibited in various New England galleries including Courthouse Gallery in Ellsworth, Maine; George Marshall Store Gallery in York, Maine; Pompanoosuc Mills in Hanover NH and Philadelphia; and the AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH.
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Musings on Maine and Mackerel
YORK, ME — Kate Emlen has moved a significant aesthetic distance from her early immersion in graphic design. Emlen’s turn to the landscape was a response, in particular, to the Maine coast where she has spent summers since her childhood. Now based in Norwich, Vermont, with a seasonal studio on the Blue Hill peninsula, she […]
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