Anthony Chee Emerson

Contemporary Diné folk art painter and print maker Anthony Chee Emerson is from the Four Corner Region, currently residing in New Mexico. He graduated from Rehoboth High School in 1980, continuing his studies at Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; and graduating from San Juan College in 2004 with an Associates of Arts Degree. His professional art career began in 1982 with his participation in the Santa Fe Indian Market and Gallup Intertribal Ceremonials. He taught Art at the Navajo Academy, located in Farmington, NM, in 1985 and 1986. Anthony Chee Emerson illustrated four Children's Books “How the Rattlesnake Got its Rattle,” “Songs of Shiprock Fair,” “First Fire” and “My Horse.” In 2002, he was commissioned to illustrate for Johns Hopkins University Native American Health Studies for Teenage Depression Series.