Education
Workshops that I have taken
Jen Gennari month online course, Dominique Medici portrait workshop, Nick Wilton online course, David Shevlino workshop, Scott Christensen workshop, Robert Moore workshop, Jill Carver landscape workshop, Qiang Huang still life workshop, Frank Serrano landscape workshop
2000 M.F.A. Sculpture
Utah State University, Logan, UT
1992 B.A. Design of The Environment (undergraduate Architecture program)
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1993-95 The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture - Sculpture
1994 The Vermont Studio School
1990 Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy
Teaching
Still life workshop 2021
University Teaching Experience
2004-06 University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
Adjunct Instructor:
Drawing One
Three Dimensional Design
2004-05 Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI
Adjunct Instructor:
Three Dimensional Design
Ceramics
2003-04 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Adjunct Instructor:
Digital Studio 1: The Image
Concepts Forms and Context IV: Systems
2002-03 Des Moines Area Community College, Boone IA
Adjunct Instructor:
Art Appreciation
Art for the Elementary School Teacher
2000 Utah State University, Logan, UT
Adjunct Instructor:
Three Dimensional Design
1998-00 Utah State University, Logan, UT
Graduate Student Instructor Instructor of Record: taught Three Dimensional Design for 4 semesters
1997 Utah State University, Logan, UT
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Moods and Matter, Montana Bliss Gallery, Hamilton, MT
2011 Solo Show, Tart Gallery, Bozeman, MT
2006 Painting and Sculpture, Kirtland Community College, Roscommon, MI
2005 Drawings and Sculpture, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI
2003 Amanda Wilner Sculpture and Works on Paper, Simpson College, Indianola, IA
2000 In Transit, M.F.A. Thesis Show, Logan, UT Sculpture
1995 Thesis Show, The New York Studio School, New York, NY, Mixed Media Sculpture and Drawing
Group Exhibitions
2021 Cowgirl Up! Western Museum , AZ
2020 Yellowstone Art Museum Auction
2019 MAM Auction, Missoula Art Museum
2019 Bestiarum Vocabulum Radius Gallery, Missoula MT
2018 MAM Auction, Missoula Art Museum
2006 Faculty Show University of Toledo, OH
2005 Faculty Show University of Toledo, OH
2003 35th Annual Clay, Fiber, Paper, Glass, Metal, Wood Exhibit, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA,
Juror: Philip Tennant, Third Place (catalogue)
2000 Clay Sculpture Invitational, Utah Council for the Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
National Mixed Media 2000, The Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
NCECA, Student Regional Exhibition, Arvada, CO, Juror: Peter Beasecker, Honorable Mention
Visiting Artist Lectures/ Critiques
2006 Visiting Artist Kirtland Community College, Roscommon, MI
Lecture on work in conjunction with solo show
2004 Invited Artist/Lecture University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Lecture on work for advanced undergraduate and and graduate Ceramics students
Exhibition Artist Talk Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI
Public lecture on work in conjunction with solo show
2003 Visiting Artist Simpson College, Indianola, IA.
Included Solo Exhibition, critiques, and carving workshop
Awards
2009 Sun Valley Center for the Arts, ID - Best of Drawing Award. Associated with the Sun Valley Art Fair.
1998 Larry Elsner Sculpture Scholarship, Utah State University
1995 New York Studio School, Best of Drawing Award, recommended by Charles Cajori
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Grant
1994 New York Studio School, Best of Sculpture Award, recommended by Garth Evans
Press
Missoulian 2018 cover photo article by Cory Walsh
https://missoulian.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/power-of-art-missoula-art-museum-benefit-auction-show-opens/article_e6cbb5cd-7342-5e8c-87b4-4b17c9e27e18.html
“On the Cover…Amanda Wilner”, Bozeman Magazine, October, 2012
Michele Corriel, “Amanda Wilner: Painting Beyond the Two-dimensional”, Bozeman Magpie Spotlight, Sept. 13, 2011 Bozeman Magpie Spotlight http://www.bozeman-magpie.com/spotlight-full-article.php?article_id=352
“By depicting the objects that surround her, artist Amanda Wilner creates her own mythology. The granaries, owls, horses and barns stand so unencumbered they emanate a power of their own.”…
Jayne Bullock, “The Art of Longevity,” The Tribune, Ames, Iowa, March 5th 2003, image on cover of newspaper. “…I am interested in my own origin and am exploring these questions of identity in my work.”
Galleries
The Art Spirit Gallery, Coeur d'Alene, ID
Nancy Cawdrey Gallery, Whitefish, MT
Wilde Meyer, Scottsdale AZ