Juneteeth Pop-Up Exhibition at the Oldemeyer Center
You are warmly invited to an exhibit in honor and celebration of Juneteenth 2026. The City of Seaside is showcasing creative works that celebrate culture, history, freedom, community, and artistic expression. An artist reception will be held Friday, June 12th.
"Boomers of Monterey" Portrait Project Is Back Thanks to Arts Council for Monterey County
Qualified residents who volunteer for my project are those born between the years of 1946 and 1964 - in other words, Baby Boomers...these portraits, along with the excerpts from their recorded thoughts and words will be the subject of a public art exhibition, most ideally by year’s end or early 2026.
Political Art: King Sisyphus In the Underworld
Apropos of the historic moment of the November 5, 2024, United States elections, I’m reposting this painting from 2019 of a miserable creature caught in his own private hell.
Political Art: Frog Soup
Remember: As POTUS, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords. Do you believe the billionaire tech bros who back Trump / Vance - the Elon Musks, Peter Thiels, Larry Ellisons, etc. - will lead the corporate pivot to sustainable practices that don't fit with their model of financial and political gain?
Political Art: Pretty In Pink
'Pretty In Pink' is a 16x20-inch pastel painting I made in outrage over the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. I'm continuing to post my overtly political art in the run up to the November 5, 2024 election.
Political Art: Neue Sturmabteilung
Remember that the Republican candidate for President stated that among the brownshirts of today are “some very fine people”.
Political Art: 451 Degree Fahrenheit
Last week was Banned Books Week, and in the run-up to the November 5, 2024 U.S. Election I'm reposting another of my blatantly political artworks, "451 Degree Fahrenheit".
Political Art: Portrait of Konrad Heiden
There are times when subtlety is inappropriate to the urgency of the day and a two-by-four-to-the-head approach is necessary. I’ll be posting my political art in the six weeks preceding a historical election in the United States that will determine if we remain for now a democratic republic.
E. M. Corpus Artworks at 480 Lighthouse Gallery
Three of my paintings are now available to art lovers and collectors for purchase and viewing pleasure at this newly opened commercial gallery in Pacific Grove, California. This gallery is the largest on the Monterey Peninsula at ten thousand square feet.
E. M. Corpus’ The Yellow-Haired Girl in New Ekphrastic Book
Edward M Corpus is one of fifteen visual artists plus twenty honorable mentions whose featured art served as inspiration for one hundred thirty works of poetry and prose in Vision and Verse: A Fusion of Poetry, Prose, Art and Photography.
Arts Council of Monterey County Grant Enables "Boomers" Portrait Project
Through a generous grant from the Arts Council of Monterey County my project Boomers of Monterey County will allow me to apply my unique visual style to portraits of an aging demographic that represents nearly a quarter of the U.S. population – a demographic in which I also belong.
Grateful to Receive Arts Council for Monterey County 2023 Artist Grant!
I am honored to be among the twenty-two emerging and established artists receiving the Arts Council for Monterey County Individual Artist Grant for 2023.
This Website Has a New URL and Email Address
Longtime followers can remember that for years the website URL was “emcanimator.com”.
2023 Got Off to a Rocky Start
2023's art began with weeks of overthinking and a mess of a false start, which came grinding to a halt when I abandoned a painting for the first time in three years. This ever happen to you? It’s kind of like the way life’s been until now.
A Riff on Joy and Pain
The triggering of memories didn’t stop there, though. Dick Cheney and his weapon of mass destruction was forgotten as I felt an urge to revisit another Aerosmith music video, one I hadn’t listened to in many years…
Addressing Toxic Masculinity and Patriarchal Culture Through Art
An essay on toxic masculinity inspired by the Twitter duel between environmental activist Greta Thunberg and self-avowed misogynist Andrew Tate