Galleries


Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth ME


Pompanoosuc Mills Showroom, Hanover NH and Philadelphia PA


One- and Two-person Exhibitions


2019  White River Gallery, South Royalton VT


2019  Garage Arts Gallery, Montpelier VT


2019  Towle Hill Gallery, Corinth VT


2019  Highland Arts Center, Greensboro VT


2018  Patricia Carega Gallery, Sandwich NH


2018  Pompanoosuc Mills Furniture Showroom

          Hanover DC


2018  Canoe Club, Hanover NH


2018  Patricia Ladd Gallery, Sandwich NH


2017 George Marshall Store Gallery, York ME


2016-17  Office of Senator Bernie Sanders

               Washington DC


2014-15  Governor's Office, Augusta ME


2014-15  Thos Moser Showroom, Freeport ME


2013  Pompanoosuc Mills Furniture Showroom

          Boston MA


2012   AVA Gallery, Lebanon NH


2011-13   Thos Moser Showroom, Freeport ME


2011  Aidron Duckworth Museum, Meriden NH


2011; 2006  Big Town Gallery, Rochester VT


2011  Suffolk County Community College, 

          Selden, NY


2010, 2007  Prince Street Gallery, New York NY


2008  Vermont Supreme Court, Montpelier VT


2008  Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

          Lebanon NH


2006  Bridgewater Mill Gallery, Bridgewater VT


2003  l’espace Jean de Joigny, Joigny FRANCE


2001  AVA Gallery, Lebanon NH


1995  Society for the Protection of New

         Hampshire Forests, Concord NH


1992; 1987  Marion Art Center, Marion MA


Juried and Group Exhibitions


2019-24 Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth ME


2018-24 City of Portland and State of Maine Biennials,

             Greenhut Gallery, Portland ME


2006-20 George Marshall Store Gallery, York ME


2020  Library Arts Center, Newport NH


2019  Aidron Duckworth Art Museum, Meriden NH


2018  Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury VT


2017   Kent Museum, Calais VT


2016   Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH


2010-2018   Thos Moser Showroom, Freeport, ME


2015   Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill ME


2015   Gallery of Maine Farmland Trust, Belfast ME


2014-2019  Blue Hill Public Library, Blue Hill ME


2013   Drawing Invitational. AVA Gallery, Lebanon NH


2010-12  Zeuxis Traveling Exhibition: The Common Object


2011   From Garden to Kitchen: 

          George Marshall Store Gallery with Stonewall Kitchen, York ME


2010  Small Works Invitational: The Painting Center, New York NY


2009  On the Landscape: A Feminine Eye: Big Town Gallery, Rochester VT


2007-09  Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth ME


2007  Three Painters: Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland ME


2007  ISA Gallery, Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria ITALY


2006-10  Prince Street Gallery, New York NY


2005-13  Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland ME


1999-2013  AVA Gallery Juried Summer Exhibition, Lebanon NH


1985  Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima JAPAN


1985  Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester NH


Awards, Residencies, Teaching


2020  "Secreted" selected for Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

           Art in the Embassies Program


2013  Visiting Lecturer, Department of Studio Art, Dartmouth College


2012  Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists

         Maryland Institute College of Art Residency, Brittany FRANCE    


2010  Vermont Artists’ Week Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT


2007  International School of Art Residency, Montecastello di Vibio

         Umbria ITALY


2001  Honorable Mention, AVA Gallery Juried Exhibition


1987  Vermont Studio School Residency, Johnson VT


1986  Art New England Residency, Bennington VT


1986; 84  Warsaw Poster Biennial, Warsaw POLAND


1983  Artist in Residence, Woodstock High. Woodstock VT; 

         Lyme Elementary, Lyme NH


1982-95  numerous awards for poster design: New York- and Boston Art 

              Directors Clubs, American Museum Association, Print Magazine, 

              Communication Arts, American Institute of Graphic Design, 

              Colorado Poster Invitational


1976  Teaching Assistant to Inge Druckrey, Color Theory, Yale School of Art


1974  Typography & Printing Summer Workshop with Ray Nash, Royalton VT


Publications


Adelaide Tyrol: “Outdoor Palette: Kate Emlen” Northern Woodlands Magazine,

                       Summer 2019

https://northernwoodlands.org/articles/article/kate-emlen


Carl Little: “Musings on Maine and Mackerel” Hyperallergic, July 8, 2017

https://hyperallergic.com/389158/kate-emlen-and-paul-heroux-paintings-and-ceramics-george-marshall-store-gallery-2017/


Christopher Volpe: “Kate Emlen: The Trees and Landscapes” 

                             Art New England, Sept/Oct 2011; p.67    


Michael Gormley; "Zeuxis and the Art of the Everyday;" American Artist

                           February 2011; pp 46-57.


Mark St. John Erickson, "Uncommon Paintings Focus on Common Object," 

                                   Daily Press 2010   (Newport News, VA)


Jane Holahan, "Towel Tales: 'The Common Object’ Explores the Lively Art of 

                      the Still Life," Intelligencer Journal-Lancaster New Era

                      January 26, 2010


Leanne Philip, “Art and Antiques” In New York, March 2010


Amy Rahn, “Girl Group” Seven Days, September 2009


Anne Galloway, “Finding Depth in the Austere Beauty of Maine” 

                       Times Argus, October 2008


“Deux Américains à Joigny” l’Yonne Républicaine, April 2003


Kirsten Gelbach, “Communicating Love of the Place” Norwich Times, 

                          October 2001


“Townscape”, Boston Sunday Globe, January 2001


“Kate Emlen at AVA,” Vermont Sunday Magazine, January 2001


Education


1977  MFA Yale University School of Art


1972  BA Kirkland College, Clinton NY