- Education: New York University, B.A., American University, M.F.A., European Graduate School, Ph.D. (candidate).
Amber majored in Studio Art at N.Y.U., and studied abroad in Naples, Pompeii, and Corciano, Italy. She spent a summer at the Chatauqua Institute of Art in Chautauqua, New York. During the summer of 2002 Amber was awarded a travel grant to make a documentary movie about the Dominican Republic, later exhibited at Smith College. After completing her M.F.A in Rome, Italy, she worked and lived in Sevastopol, Ukraine, where she exhibited her work at the Sevastopol Children’s Library and taught at the Sevastopol branch of Moscow University. Amber ran the painting department and King Gallery at the College of Southern Idaho. In the summer of 2006, she received a National Endowment for the Arts grant to attend the Bau Institute Art Residency in Otranto, Italy. She taught painting and drawing at American University’s abroad program in Corciano, Italy, attended the Arts and Ideas Residency in Lisbon, Portugal, and taught painting at Syracuse University while she worked towards her PhD at the European Graduate School. Currently Amber is preparing for an exhibition at the Fowler Kellogg Art Center in Chautauqua, NY, and getting ready to write her dissertation. 2011 was her seventh summer with Excel at Amherst College.
