{"product_id":"the-gift-emma-amos-with-friends","title":"The Gift: Emma Amos with Friends","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Emily Liebert\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith Gabriella Shypula\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributions by Carmen Hermo, Key Jo Lee, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Rhea L. Combs, Jordan Casteel, Aliza Nizenbaum and Amy Sherald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn exploration Emma Amos’s ambitious portraiture project The Gift, celebrating its enduring legacy and contemporary importance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmerican artist Emma Amos (1937–2020) originally created The Gift (1990–94) as a birthday present for her daughter. However, this dazzling collection of portraits that honors creative kinship among women speaks to a much larger audience. A groundbreaking artist, Amos worked across the mediums of paint, print, and textile to celebrate the lives of women, especially Black women. Inspired by a book proposal that Amos herself drafted, Emma Amos: Among Friends contextualizes The Gift and explores its legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in Amos’s own creative community in New York City, The Gift is composed of forty-eight watercolor portraits of artists, writers, and curators, including Elizabeth Catlett, Anna Deavere Smith, and Faith Ringgold. To great effect, the vast grid of faces, each slightly larger than life, projects the force of its subjects. With essays by a new generation of scholars, a historic interview of Amos by bell hooks, and a roundtable conversation among notable contemporary artists, including Jordan Casteel, Aliza Nizenbaum, and Amy Sherald, this publication reflects on the intersections of portraiture and community and honors the power of Amos’s work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDistributed for the Cleveland Museum of Art\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExhibition Schedule:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Cleveland Museum of Art\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(September 13, 2026–January 17, 2027)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e160 Pages, 9.50 × 12.00 in, 85 color + b-w illus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished Oct 2026\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CMA PUBLICATIONS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47911948484833,"sku":"49694","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2524\/0922\/files\/9780300292718.jpg?v=1778689716","url":"https:\/\/shop.clevelandart.org\/products\/the-gift-emma-amos-with-friends","provider":"Cleveland Museum of Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}