Amanda Stohl Hendershot

BIOGRAPHY

Amanda Stohl Hendershot was born in Virgina in 1987. She is a graduate student at the Maryland Institute College of Art, pursuing her Masters of Art and Teaching degree. She is currently in her 5th and final year in MICA’s MAT program. When she was a young child, her parents made sure that art was a part of her life. From her father, a stone mason and sculptor, she learned to work with her hands at a young age. Her mother went to college for fashion design and her great grandmother worked as a seamstress at a sewing factory, so a knowledge of sewing and fabric also came naturally to her. Her mother also had a garden where ever Hendershot moved, so an appreciation of natural beauty has been a major influence. Her parents are consequently a major influence in her work, both in its craft and content.

Through high school, Stohl Hendershot mainly worked in drawing and painting. She was accepted into the painting program at the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts in Erie, PA during her sophomore year in high school. She also gained recognition as a teenager in her small, rural community as an artist, and won awards at local and statewide competitions. In 2006, she graduated high school and was accepted into the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2010, she received her bachelor’s degree in General Fine Arts and got excepted into the Master’s of Art and Teacher program with a partial scholarship. She is currently finishing her final year as a graduate student.

EDUCATION

2011         Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, MAT, Art Education (anticipated)

2010        Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, BFA, General Fine Arts

2004        Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, Completed Program in Painting, Erie, PA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2010        Maryland Institute College of Art Fox Gallery, MAT Thesis Exhibition, Baltimore, MD

2010        Maryland Institute College of Art Fox Gallery, Senior Thesis Exhibition, Baltimore, MD

2010        Maryland Institute College of Art Fox Gallery, ‘10 MAT Undergraduate Juried Show, Baltimore, MD

2010        Maryland Institute College of Art Fox Gallery, Explorations, Studio Center Selections, Baltimore, MD

2009        Maryland Institute College of Art Fox Gallery, ‘09 MAT Juried Show, Baltimore, MD

2009        Maryland Institute College of Art Studio Center, Junior Independent Show, Baltimore, MD

2008        Maryland Institute College of Art Fox Gallery, ‘08 MAT Juried Show, Baltimore, MD

2008        Maryland Institute College of Art Station Gallery, Sensoreality, Baltimore, MD

2008        Maryland Institute College of Art Main Gallery, Intro to GFA/Drawing Show, Baltimore MD

2007        Maryland Institute College of Art Fox Gallery,’07 MAT Juried Show, Baltimore, MD

2005        Needmore Public Library Gallery, Fall Folk Festival ‘05, Needmore, PA

2004        Mercyhurst College Main Gallery, Governor’s School Visual Arts Show, Erie, PA

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2005        Mellott, Lindsay R., Students Work Wows’em at Southern Fulton Art Festival, Fulton County News,   March 17

2004        Staff Report, Stohl Wins Herald Mail’s Pop Art Contest Prize, Fulton County News, Oct. 21

2004        Coleman, Kate, Art Contest Draws to a Close, Herald Mail Company, Oct. 19

2004        Staff Report, Sixteen-year-old’s Passion for Art Paints a Bright Future, Fulton County News, July 8

2002        Denzer, Peter A., Teen Artist Considers Career in Cartoons and Illustrating, Hancock News, July 3

HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS

2011        Maryland State Department of Education, “Teachers of Promise” Honoree, Baltimore, MD

2011        Maryland Institute College of Art, MAT Department Scholarship, Baltimore, MD

2010        Maryland Institute College of Art, General Fine Arts Departmental Recognition Award, Baltimore, MD

2010        Maryland Institute College of Art, Student Activities Leadership Recognition Award, Baltimore, MD

2006-10  Maryland Institute College of Art, Academic Honors Scholarship, Baltimore, MD

2006-10  Maryland Institute College of Art, Trustee Award, Baltimore, MD

2009        Samson Feldman ‘25, Art Education Scholarship, Baltimore, MD

2005        Fall Folk Festival, People’s Choice Award, Needmore, PA

2004        Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, Governor’s Art Scholarship (for Painting), Erie, PA