Emily L. Young is a Professor Emerita of Art at Portland State University in Portland Oregon. She is an internationally known artist and has shown her paintings throughout the United States, Europe, and Korea. She has taught traditional and computer drawing and painting in the Portland metropolitan area to teachers and students at the elementary, secondary, and university level. She is known for her patient approach to teaching the fundamentals of visual arts and digital images.

 

Education

Bachelor of Design, University of Florida

Master of Art in Education, University of Florida

Emily studied with Harrison Covington, Stuart Purser, Hiram D. Williams and Kenneth Kerslake

at University of Florida.

Emily also studied with University of Oregon professors Ken O’Connell and Craig Hickman.

 

Teaching Experience

Professor Emerita, Department of Art, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 1997–present

Adjunct Professor, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR, 1997–98

Professor, Department of Art, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 1993–1997

Associate Professor, Department of Art, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 1987–1993

Fixed Term Appointment, Department of Art, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 1986–87

Lecturer, Department of Art, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 1984–86

Art Educator, Portland Public Schools, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 1969–86

Teacher of Talented and Gifted, Portland Public Schools, 1980–84

Art Instructor, Portland Community College, Portland, OR, 1974–78 and 2003–2013

 

Creative Achievements

Exhibitions: all invited or juried

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, PSU Art and Design faculty

“Building Community” 2021

Portland State University, “Currents in Northwest Art”, Works by Emerita Faculty in

Simon Benson House 2001

One Person Show, Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 1998

University of Ulsan, Ulsan Korea invitational, Purchase Award, summer 1997

Computer Graphic Art Invitational, Mt. Hood Community College Art Gallery,

1997 first prize award

One Person Show, White Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 1996

International Show, Computer Art – Start in a New Dimension, The Forum, Gutersloh, Germany,

12/93–94 (invited as one of 30 of the most important computer artists of the world)

One Person Show, ABACI Gallery, Portland, OR, 1993

Sitka center for art and ecology invitational, Portland, OR, 1993, 1994,1995, 1996

Portland Art Museum, Gorden Gilkey Print Center, five prints chosen for

permanent collection, 1993

University of Oregon Continuation Center, Portland location, One Person Show,

October–December, 1992

Prix Ars Electronica, slide and video show, 1989, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, Linz, Austria.

Computer Graphic Art Invitational, Mt. Hood Community College Art Gallery,

1989, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96

OAEA Invitational, Eastern Oregon State College, October–November 1992

Brigham City Museum, Computer Art From The Western States, 1992

University of Oregon Continuation Center Computer Art Invitational, 1989, 1990, 1992

Interface: Art and Computer, Park Avenue Atrium Gallery, New York City, 1991

3rd Annual Hawaiian Computer Art Exhibition, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1991

One Person Show, Powell’s Technical Books Gallery, Portland, OR, 1991

One Person Show, ABACI Gallery, Portland, OR, 1990

University of Oregon, 7th Annual and 8th Annual Computer Graphics Invitational, 1989, 1990,

The Oregon Art Community Invitational, Oregon Historical Society, 1990

Computer Graphic Art Invitational, The Artists’ Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1990

ABACI Gallery of Computer Art Invitational, 1989

ABACI Gallery of Computer Art One Person Show, 1989

ABACI Gallery of Computer Art Traveling Exhibit, 1989

Oregon Graduate Center Computer Graphics Invitational, 1989

Oregon State University West Gallery, Computer Painting, 1989

Portland Cable Access Computer Graphics Show, 1989

Gallery 299, Portland State University, Computer Art Exhibit, 1989

University of Oregon, Computer Graphics International Touring Invitational, 1989–1992

 

Honors

Full scholarship to University of Florida, 1956–1960

University of Florida Teaching Fellowship, 1960

Humanitarian Award Delta Sigma Theta, 1983

Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi PSU, 1989

Oregon Art Educator of the year by National Art Education Association, 1990

Educators Grant by SIGGRAPH (International Association of Computing Machinery, 1991