Amanda Carmer received a BA in art education from Purdue University, West Lafayette in 2006. After teaching elementary art for two years in rural Indiana she relocated to Chicago to attend Columbia College and received a BFA in photography in May 2011. She is now enrolled in the MFA program at Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids. While at Columbia Amanda received numerous recognitions including the Albert P. Weisman Award and an honorable mention in PDN EDU Magazine's annual Student Photo Contest and exhibited her work extensively. She also pursued an interest in curatorial research and exhibition production as an intern with the photography department at The Art Institute of Chicago. Currently she is a curatorial assistant with Open Concept Gallery. Her work straddles the line between journalistic and conceptual and addresses economic, social, and cultural issues as well as the affects of technology on daily experience.

 

Education

MFA Studio Art, Kendall College of Art & Design, 2014
BFA Photography, Columbia College Chicago, 2011
BA Art Education, Purdue University, 2006

Co-Founder, Craft House: Collaborative Exhibition Space, Grand Rapids, MI, current
Intern, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Fall 2010--Spring 2011

Exhibitions

Digital Works National Juried Competition, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences
Loveladies, NJ, June-July 2012

Art.Downtown,
Grand Rapids, MI, April 2012

MEGA: Michigan Emerging Graduate Artists,
Grand Rapids, MI, March-April 2012

Free Radical,
Grand Rapids, MI, October 2011

Weisman Award Exhibition,
Chicago, IL, October 2011

BFA Photography Exhibition at Columbia College Chicago,
Chicago, IL, May 2011

Emerging Artists, Morpho Gallery,
Chicago, IL, March 2011

Revision/Revisit, Patty and Rusty Reuff Gallery,
West Lafayette, IN, October 2009

Awards

2nd Place
MEGA: Michigan Emerging Graduate Artist Exhibition, 2012

Academic Fellowship
Kendall College of Art & Design, 2011-14

The Weisman Grant Award
Columbia College Chicago, 2011

Honorable Mention
Chicago Union League Civic & Arts Foundation
Visual Arts Competition, 2011

Honorable Mention
PDN EDU Magazine
Student Photo Contest, 2011