Born in 1943 in Los Angeles, California, Donald Emery was educated at California State University, Long Beach, achieving a Bachelor of Arts in 1966 and a Master of Arts in Drawing and Painting in 1968. He then went on to become a Professor of Fine Art at Santa Monica College, California, from 1969 to 2007, with a major emphasis in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking. Emery’s work has been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally for more than forty years. Emery approaches his work as an ongoing search for truth, beauty and meaning commenting, “I choose to pursue beauty because we are constantly barraged with so much chaos and ugliness created by man as opposed to the harmony in nature.” After retiring from teaching, Emery’s work has continued to find audiences, most recently in China during the Pingao International Festival for Photography. Since then, Emery’s Linocuts have traveled in the Entropy of Art Exhibition in New York, and then onto the Galeria Stara Prochownia in Warsaw, Poland, and the Galeria Amifilada in Olsztyn, Poland. His work continues to travel and is still being exhibited throughout Eastern Europe.