Bob Emser Sculpture

Eureka-based sculptor Bob Emser has been honored with a major financial award.

NEW YORK, NY -- The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. is pleased to announce the granting of a major financial award to local sculptor Bob Emser. The grant will support Emser's personal and/or professional expenses for one year.

"Receiving the Pollack-Krasner Grant is an incredible honor and one that many professional artists strive to receive," said Bob Emser, whose public works can be seen around the world. "This milestone marks a tipping point in my career allowing me to concentrated more time for studio work, and being acknowledged by the art professionals for the significance of my artwork."

Pollock-Krasner grants are awarded to professional visual artists that display great artistic merit. In addition Pollock-Krasner grants have enabled artists to create new work, purchase needed materials and pay for studio rent. Past recipients of Pollock-Krasner grants acknowledge their critical impact in allowing concentrated time for studio work, and in preparing for exhibitions and other professional opportunities such as accepting a residency.

Emser maintains studio's in Chicago and Eureka, Illinois. Emser's work can be seen online at BobEmser.com

About American Sculptor, Bob Emser

Bob Emser is an international sculptor, having shown on 4 continents, 7 countries and 27 states in the U.S. His extensive body of work, dating back to 1978, can be seen in cities and municipalities, sculpture parks, museums and institutions of higher learning. During his 30 year career he has served as a visiting artist and has taught at several universities, held a tenured professorship, and founded a not-for-profit art center that is still in existence. He has also served as the executive director of Chicago's international sculpture exhibition, Pier Walk. Currently he is the president of Chicago Sculpture International, the local affiliate of International Sculpture Center, on whose Board of Directors he has served. Emser focuses his full time efforts creating sculptures for public and private spaces.

About the Pollack-Krasner Foundation

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 to assist individual working artists of merit with financial need through the generosity of Lee Krasner (1908-1984), a leading abstract expressionist painter and widow of Jackson Pollock. Since its inception, the Foundation has awarded more than $50 million to artists in 72 countries.