Gary Emrich

Areas of Specialization:

30 years as working artist; 25 years in the film industry.

What is your favorite thing about teaching at RMCAD?

Working with students.

What is your favorite class or project to teach and why?

Senior Studio, because the students are so motivated already.

Knowing what you know now, what’s the one piece of advice you would give to your college-aged self?

Take teachers not courses. Any good teacher can make any course great.

What are your greatest influences?

Mass media.

Artist/Teaching Statement:

My artwork engages a system of acquisition and accumulation, of sorting and retrieving. I release images from their prescribed archives and reinvent and re-contextualize them in my personal storehouse of art materials.

Anything else?

Be prepared to work. It is college, after all.