Amanda Eicher

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2012 ARC Fellow
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Amanda Eicher is an artist, educator, and arts administrator who has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 1999. Currently the Executive Director at NIAD Art Center, Amanda has also worked at Creativity Explored as a teaching artist. In 2001, she collaborated with Andrew McKinley and the Adobe Books community (which includes many CE artists) to open The Back Room Gallery, a one-room project space dedicated to installation work by emerging artists, where Amanda was a curator through 2003 before passing curatorial duties to a series of collaborative and cooperative groups, one of which continues to maintain The Back Room presently.

Amanda was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.