Artist's statement:
Molly Kempson is an artist and educator making relief prints in and about the American South. Her work spirals through architecture, language, flora, fauna, preservation, and conservation to highlight the complicated history of the region through artist's books, letterpress posters, and limited-edition reduction linocut prints. She has been awarded several funded residencies, including the Coffey Residency in Book Arts at the University of Florida in 2016, the letterpress residency at Ashantilly Press in 2018, and is an In Cahoots artist-in-residence for 2024 in Petaluma, California.
Kempson holds a BA from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia and graduated from the University of Florida with an MA in Art Education in 2016. In addition to her personal artistic practice, she teaches courses in the College of the Arts at UF, is an artist-in-residence at UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine and was an elementary art educator for a decade. She teaches printmaking workshops at museums and schools to children, adults, docents, and art educators. Her free time is spent paddling, hiking, and reading historical markers across Florida.
Molly Kempson is an artist and educator making relief prints in and about the American South. Her work spirals through architecture, language, flora, fauna, preservation, and conservation to highlight the complicated history of the region through artist's books, letterpress posters, and limited-edition reduction linocut prints. She has been awarded several funded residencies, including the Coffey Residency in Book Arts at the University of Florida in 2016, the letterpress residency at Ashantilly Press in 2018, and is an In Cahoots artist-in-residence for 2024 in Petaluma, California.
Kempson holds a BA from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia and graduated from the University of Florida with an MA in Art Education in 2016. In addition to her personal artistic practice, she teaches courses in the College of the Arts at UF, is an artist-in-residence at UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine and was an elementary art educator for a decade. She teaches printmaking workshops at museums and schools to children, adults, docents, and art educators. Her free time is spent paddling, hiking, and reading historical markers across Florida.
