Amanda Maciuba

Amanda Maciuba serves as an Assistant Professor of Art Studio at Mount Holyoke College, teaching printmaking, drawing, and book arts while contributing to the Department of Art Studio, the InterArts Council, and the Arts & Technology Initiative. Her role bridges traditional studio practice with interdisciplinary technological exploration in the liberal arts context.

Educational background:

• M.F.A. and M.A. from the University of Iowa
• B.F.A. from SUNY at Buffalo

Maciuba's research interrogates human-nature dynamics through artistic practice, examining how development, environmental forces, and time reshape landscapes and human agency. Her work employs printmaking, book arts, installation, and drawing to confront unsustainable practices and document irrevocable environmental transformations, with current focus on Western Massachusetts, the Great Lakes Region, and Missouri River watershed. This practice creates spaces for collective mourning while highlighting both natural beauty and human absurdities in altered environments.

Prestigious recognitions include:

• The Renaissance Graphic Arts Award (Semifinalist)
• Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar at University of Nebraska
• The Print Center's 99th ANNUAL International Competition (Semifinalist)
• Elizabeth Rubendall Artist-in-Residence at Great Plains Art Museum

Her work appears in major collections including Burchfield Penney Art Center, Janet Turner Print Museum, and Smith College's Mortimer Rare Book Collection, with exhibitions at venues like Smith College's Oresman Gallery and Highpoint Center for Printmaking. Maciuba's extensive residency history—from Indian Dunes National Park to Kathmandu—fuels her geographic-specific investigations. While student advising details remain unspecified in source materials, her active exhibition schedule and residency engagements demonstrate sustained creative research momentum in environmental art practice.