Jamie Adams wins Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award

Associate Professor Jamie Adams is among the winners of the 2025 Emerson Excellence in Teaching Awards. Adams joined WashU in 2003 as a lecturer, coordinating the drawing area. Today he teaches in the MFA in Visual Art program, undergraduate studio art program, and has served as the school’s painting area coordinator since 2012.

A prolific painter, Adams’ work can be found in the permanent collections of the Woodmere Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the MOMA Library, MOMA Wales, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Research Library, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, the Pennsylvania Capitol Building, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Michigan, and Washington University in St. Louis. 

His work has been cited internationally in publications such as “New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting,” “The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture,” and “Fragonard, Regards croisés.” Other publications include Art in America, Bulletin du Musée Ingres, Blisss Magazine, Novembre Magazine, the Huffington Post, Just Magazine, and Hi-Fructose Magazine.

The Emerson Excellence in Teaching Awards recognize teachers across the St. Louis region, from kindergarten through university, for their example of educational excellence in their fields. WashU honorees are chosen annually by the deans of their schools and by the university’s Center for Teaching and Learning for their achievements and leadership in teaching.