Emma Wolfsohn's Projects

BFA Student

Major: Printmaking

Graduation Year: 2017

Artist Statement:

As of 2017, there are roughly 65.3 million people who have been forcibly displaced worldwide with 21.3 million refugees among them. The deluge of news concerning the refugee crisis is available to us at any moment, but the the repeated suffering of refugees extends far past our field of vision. The fragments of articles we read on our morning commutes or at the end of the day do not describe the damage done to millions of lives. At times, this way of receiving information weakens our ability to empathize. To find a point of connection, it is important that we recognize where we stand in relation to the crisis and what our roles our based on that position.

Biography:

Emma Wolfsohn was born in 1993 in New York City. She currently lives and works in Portland, Maine. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking at Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine in 2017. Wolfsohn’s work explores topics of migration and the refugee crisis currently taking place in the Middle East and Africa through various printmaking processes such as intaglio, screenprint, monotype and letterpress printing, as well as drawing and photography. She has participated in several group exhibitions in Maine College of Art, such as the Journeys Exhibition in 2016 and the BFA show in 2016 and 2015, and in group exhibitions in Portland, Maine such as the 100 Dresses show at the Waynflete Gallery 2016 and the Summer Show at the SPACE Gallery, and the Senior Thesis show in 2017 at Maine College of Art.