Emma Kemp
California Institute of the Arts, Critical Studies, Special Faculty; Art Residency Program Coordinator
Emma Kemp is a full-time professor at Otis College of Art & Design in L.A. She received a Master of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts (2014) and a BFA in Art & Design from Central Saint Martins in London, U.K (2011). Emma is the author of several books, including Blue Pool, Cecelia with iTi Press.
Emma co-founded, designed, and continues to program the CalArts Summer Institute Art Residency, a 5-week studio program for artists, now in its fourth year. She has received various awards including the CalArts Faculty Research Grant (2016), a Utah Humanities Foundation Delmont R. Oswald Fellowship (2016), and a New Voices Ithaca College award (2019). Her work has been exhibited, hosted and screened at institutions in the U.S. and Europe.
Address: Los Angeles
Emma co-founded, designed, and continues to program the CalArts Summer Institute Art Residency, a 5-week studio program for artists, now in its fourth year. She has received various awards including the CalArts Faculty Research Grant (2016), a Utah Humanities Foundation Delmont R. Oswald Fellowship (2016), and a New Voices Ithaca College award (2019). Her work has been exhibited, hosted and screened at institutions in the U.S. and Europe.
Address: Los Angeles
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Blue Pool / Cecilia is a wild ride through small-town southern Illinois, where Walters made most of her work over the past thirty years. In June 2017, ITI Press sent Kemp and Walters–who had never met–on simultaneous assignment to Walters’ hometown, Alton. At the heart of Blue Pool / Cecilia is the town’s inevitably gothic watery quarry, the Blue Pool, where the body of murder victim Cecilia Crites leads Kemp from the past to the present as she follows a trail of newspaper clippings and police records to bar-room conversations with townspeople and road-trip chats with Walters. Mining these collected stories, Kemp’s writing careens along a damaged trajectory of women’s lives lived along the margins of the Mississippi. Equal parts travelogue, true crime drama and artist’s portrait, Kemp’s riveting and genre-bending text reveals how, in Walters’ photographs, time shoves itself backwards and forwards, a crooked tideline extending through each girl and woman.
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Blue Pool / Cecilia is a wild ride through small-town southern Illinois, where Walters made most of her work over the past thirty years. In June 2017, ITI Press sent Kemp and Walters–who had never met–on simultaneous assignment to Walters’ hometown, Alton. At the heart of Blue Pool / Cecilia is the town’s inevitably gothic watery quarry, the Blue Pool, where the body of murder victim Cecilia Crites leads Kemp from the past to the present as she follows a trail of newspaper clippings and police records to bar-room conversations with townspeople and road-trip chats with Walters. Mining these collected stories, Kemp’s writing careens along a damaged trajectory of women’s lives lived along the margins of the Mississippi. Equal parts travelogue, true crime drama and artist’s portrait, Kemp’s riveting and genre-bending text reveals how, in Walters’ photographs, time shoves itself backwards and forwards, a crooked tideline extending through each girl and woman.