Biography

Currently teaching in Italy for the University of Georgia, Amanda was most recently awarded the inaugural Virginia A. Myers, Visiting Artist / Visiting Assistant Professor in Printmaking at University of Iowa for 2012-­‐13. Amanda was born in Seattle, WA and earned her MFA from
Indiana University.She has been awarded a fellowship residency at the Scuola Internazionale
di Grafica, Venice, Italy for fall of 2013. Previously, she worked in art education as an employee
of Penland School of Crafts and Pilchuck Glass School.
She has served on the board of Seattle Center for Book Arts and as an avid writer;
she is also a correspondent for Printeresting.org.

Themed Panel

Crossing into the Cinematic: Printmakers Embrace Video and Animation
Video and animation give printmakers an opportunity to explore time-based
elements in their artwork.With the availability of accessible software, printmakers have been experimenting more and more with incorporating and building video elements into their print work.This panel of artists will discuss how characteristics of printmaking (seriality,multiples, change over time, translation of mark) relate to their work in video and animation. The panel will touch on their inspirations, successes, failures, and thought processes when approaching a video element as a printmaker.We will discuss how video and animation work enhances, or detracts from ourprintmaking work. And as educators, how we wrap elements of video and animation work into our teaching.Artists will discuss their process; from creation of original material or re-appropriation of existing footage to the challenges and opportunities of exhibiting video based work. Conceptual choices will also be explored.