PROJECTS
As an artist and professional I have worked in several media including: computer graphic design and drawing (proficient in Adobe PhotoShop, Quark Xpress, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign), lithography, photo etching, photography, woodblock printing, decoupage, painting, pen & ink, clay sculpting, wood & metal sculpting and lost wax casting (for jewelry). I am co-founder/owner of The Oasis, a gallery and design studio in Plattsburgh, NY. I am also co-founder/owner of Follow Your Bliss Notecards, featuring my drawings and my husband’s photographs, as well as founder and designer of the AmandaCards notecard line. I enjoy getting my, and other people's ideas down on paper. As my artist's eye has improved through the years I have found increasing satisfaction in the act of creating - whether it be drawing, printmaking, sewing, website design, and even writing.
Exhibits
Miner Medical Arts Building Historic Exhibit
Exhibit Designer/Researcher
Champlain Valley Physicians’ Hospital
Plattsburgh, NY
2006 – 2007
Created a historical exhibit about the beginning of Physician’s Hospital including over thirty exhibit-quality historical photographic prints and two exhibit panels.
The Plattsburg Idea Historic Exhibit
Exhibit Designer/Researcher
City Court Building
Plattsburgh, NY
2006
Created an historical exhibit about the Plattsburgh Idea including exhibit-quality historical photographic prints and two large exhibit panels.
The Heart’s Delight Farm Heritage Exhibit
Exhibit Designer/Curator/Researcher
Miner Institute, Chazy, NY 2000 – 2003
Conceived, designed and built an award winning 2,200 square foot permanent installation with numerous large exhibit panels, two video programs, and over 40 exhibit-quality historical photographic restoration/reproductions. Performed all graphic design, scanning of several hundred historical images, as well as photographic restoration/output for the various facets of the exhibit, created exhibits of historic objects. Upstate History Alliance Award
Testimonials
“Amanda Palmer's tenure as Director/Curator at The Alice T. Miner Colonial Collection has been marked by her thoughtful and often innovative engagement with a varied (and storied) decorative arts collection. Amassed by the wealthy and urbane Alice T. Miner, the collection was installed by Mrs. Miner in the rural hometown of her husband in northeastern New York State. Amanda has had a creative hand in making this shrine to Colonial America a welcoming and interesting museum to visit. Through an updated website, blog, and exhibits Amanda brings to life the humanity behind the objects. She deftly works with the leadership of a strong board of trustees and has a keen sense of the organization's strengths and challenges.”
Anne Ackerson, Principal, Anne W. Ackerson Consulting, Director, Museum Association of New York
"Amanda has broad range of talents and skills that she can bring to bear on any situation. As an artist, she is imaginative, has a distinct style, and knows how to use the visual arts to communicate ideas, feelings, and stories. As a researcher and writer, she has the ability to dig deep into history and people and has a way of making what is old relevant today. These assets also serve her well as a graphic designer, where she can tell complex stories through text, graphics, objects, and photographs in very exciting ways. In her capacity as the director of the Alice T. Miner Museum, she has taken a traditional institution and infused it with new life and energy and as chair of the Adirondack Coast Cultural Alliance she has shown her considerable leadership qualities. Beyond all this, she is generous and fun."
Steven Engelhart, Executive Director, Adirondack Architectural Heritage
Community Involvement
National Park Service Heritage Area Advisory Committee Member
Mountain Lake Public Television (PBS) Board Trustee
Adirondack Coast Cultural Alliance First Board President and Founding Member, Website Designer
Friends of the Old Stone Barracks Website Designer
Rotary International
Memberships