Amanda Dunbar

Amanda Dunbar
Painter Amanda Dunbar
Born	Amanda Dunbar
Nationality	Canadian
Known for	Painting, Oil Painting, Impressionism
Awards	2006 Induction to Texas Women's Hall of Fame, 2009 SMU Distinguished Alumni Award, (see below).

Amanda Dunbar (born 1982) is a Texas-based artist who gained notoriety at an early age for her oil painting skills. Amanda Dunbar began painting in an after school art class at the age of 12. Her spontaneous and advanced works acquired significant interest immediately. Amanda is currently listed as a prodigy of the visual arts in the current textbooks for advanced university education entitled “Child Psychology” by John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd.

Career

Amanda Dunbar is the founder and CEO of Dunbar Studios in Dallas Texas where she is also the lead designer for the Precious Rebel line of Art Guitars.

Education

Amanda Dunbar was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and moved to Allen, Texas with her family. At the end of the eighth grade she signed up for an after-school art class where the instructor asked the class to paint something - anything - so that he could gauge their skill level. Dunbar picked up a brush and created "Mother's Touch", a portrait in the French impressionist style of a woman in a blue dress drying her small daughter after her bath. The impressed instructor quickly notified Dunbar's parents of her ususual skill. When she was young she liked many things such as cooking,drawing, acting, singing, etc. She never knew what she wanted to as she grew up. She thought she could be a nurse like her mother. But, she never thought that her career would be becoming an artist. *[1] *[2]

From 2007 to 2009, Amanda attended Southern Methodist University doing Art History graduate studies. She has completed her Masters of Art, minus the thesis. In 2006 she attended the Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, receiving her Post Baccalaureate Degree in Fine Arts France. In 2005, studied photography in Manus, Brazil and on the Amazon river with Roger Moore *[3]. In 2004, took a painting residency on Turtle Island (private island), Fiji. 2003, through the Southern Methodist University Study Abroad Program, studied art history and drawing in Venice, Rome, Siena, and Orvieto, Italy. From 2000 to 2004, Dunbar studied at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and received her Bachelors of Fine Arts cum laude with Honors and Distinction.*[4]

Television Appearances

The Oprah Winfrey Show, ABC *[5]
The Early Show, CBS
World News Tonight, ABC *[6]
Good Morning Texas, ABC
PBS
CNN News
Designing Texas
Dick Clark's The Other Half
Our Town Hero, CBS 11
Soap Talk
The Spirit of Texas, News 8, ABC
Living Large

• AM Northwest

The Big Idea, CNBC *[7]

Honors & Awards

- SMU Distinguished Alumni Award: 2009 *[8]
- Awarded the 2009 DAR "Americanism Award" * [9]
- 2006 - Inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame. *[10]
- Ambassador to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children *[11] - Certificate of Commendation, United States & U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein.
- Keys to the cities of: Colleyville, Southlake, Grapevine, Allen, TX & West Palm Beach, FL.
- October 14, 2000 designated "Amanda Dunbar Day" by the Mayor of the City of Allen, Texas.
- Texas Health Resources Community Star Award, 2002.
- Commissioned "State Artist of Texas", 2005.

References

• ABC Person of the Week: Amanda Dunbar (Video)
• ABC Person of the Week: Amanda Dunbar (Article)
• TIME Magazine: Time for Kids Article on Amanda Dunbar
• Dunbar Becomes Ambassador to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
• Artist Amanda Dunbar Gives Back by Painting Guitar for Charity
• Dunbar on LA Artslant
• Dunbar Chosen for Miami GuitarTown Project
• MSNBC: Artist Creates Huge Guitar for Charity
• Artist's Guitar Used on Opening Nickelback Performance at the Juno Awards
• Amanda Dunbar the Prodigy

Guided By Angels - Art Book *[12]

External links

• Joanne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach
• Amanda Dunbar