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Amanda Adams

(she/they) (b. 1990) multidisciplinary visual artist and podcaster currently based in Baltimore, MD working in fiber art, soft sculpture, printmaking, photo, video, 3D animation, and illustration. She earned her BFA in Photography and Bookmaking in 2013 from the Maryland Institute College of Art which is where she started Close Call Studio and has been exploring new ways of creating handmade, playful and accessible art ever since.

Experience

2017 - PRESENT

Beyond the Studio: A Podcast For Artists - Host & Creator

Podcast about the work that happens behind the scenes for visual artists and makers and how they’re sustaining themselves, co-hosted with Nicole Mueller with over 140 episodes featuring past guests such as Ruby Lerner, Sharon Louden, Wendy Red Star, Meow Wolf, Jean Shin, and Heather Bhandari

2012 - PRESENT

Close Call Studio, Baltimore, MD - Owner & Operator

Multidisciplinary visual art practice primarily working in soft sculpture and illustration with experience vending at over 150 in-person pop-up events around the country at locations such as The American Visionary Art Museum, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, NPR, and MICA. Featured in such publications as Baltimore Magazine, American Craft and Brown Paper Bag with past clients such as Google, Anthropologie, Epitaph Records and La Dispute

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Awaken, Towson University Center for the Arts, Towson, MD

2014

Nature Indoors, Rawlings Conservatory, Baltimore, MD

2013

TEN, The Windup Space, Baltimore, MD

2013

Thesis Exhibition, MICA Main Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2013

23/ TWELVE THIRTEEN Exhibition, D-Center Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2012

Junior Photo Exhibition, MICA Main Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Awards & Honors

2023

Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Grant

2022

Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco’s Meantime (Beyond the Studio)

2017

Southern Exposure Alternative Exposure Grant (Beyond the Studio)