Prairieside Outpost is an artist residency in the wide open prairie of Matfield Green, KS. I was fortunate to receive a family residency in August 2022 and saw some of the most remarkable sunsets and sky colors I’ve still yet seen. In celebration of 10 years of residencies, the exhibition As Grass Grows opens in September at the Leedy-Voulkas Art Center. There will be an exhibition catalog and artist talks… dates coming soon! I’ll be installing a group of paintings within a wall painted mural created specifically for the exhibition.

I’m thrilled to be included in the DeVos Museums’s North of the 45th Exhibition, on view through August 1, 2025. ❤️ Juror of the show, curator Rebecca Heidenberg of Dreamsong says:

“Curatorially, I am always looking for threads that run through artworks and the potential for the spark of new connections and conversations between them. I immediately noticed the landscape as an important subject matter, as well as a sensibility that intonates undercurrents of longing, wistfulness and of intimacy, which I sought to emphasize in the selections. A strong sense of place began to emerge in the juxtaposition of landscape, portraits, art historical references, abstraction and spiritualist work. In these times of deep instability, I think each piece in this exhibition, and the space between them, offers the gift of quiet contemplation.”

Two of my paintings, A Strange World of Vibrations (above, left) and An Emerging Quality of Tenderness (below) are included alongside so many fabulous artists like Erik Benson, Rachel Collier, Michon Weeks … check out their work! ❤️

Deep Time Exhibition, 2024
Olson Gallery, St Paul, MN

Amanda Hamilton and Shana Kaplow in Conversation, Sept 2024 (45 min)

Many thanks to the Grand Marais Artist Colony for the gift of residency space and time! May/June 2024

Thanks to Lindsey Scharold for including me on Mpls St Paul Magazine's 12 Artists to Watch!

Vashon Artist Residency, Vashon-Maury Island, WA. July-August, 2022

Artist-in-Residence at Prairieside Outpost, August 2022. Lots of time painting (slow going: glaze, glaze, glaze…), hiking, and reading about rocks and fossils in Kansas.

Excited to make a small contribution to “Wicked Art Assignments: Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education” published in 2020 by Valiz Project Books; Nearly 100 assignments from artist/educators all over the world for k-12 through university!

Elizabeth Murray Painting Residency, summer 2019

I’m a recipient of the 2019 MSAB Artist Initiative Grant which will allow me to spend 2019-20 developing printmaking processes in relation to the dark paintings. Many thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts and Minnesota State Arts Funding.