Amanda
Kidd-
Kestler
ARTIST &
ART DIRECTOR
ABOUT AMANDAAmanda Kidd-Kestler is an artist and arts organizer originally from Sag Harbor, New York. She is currently the Executive Director at the New Hampshire Art Association. An alumnae of Clark University, Amanda is an internationally-recognized professional art framer, and has taught printmaking classes at her alma mater as an adjunct professor. She served on the Worcester Arts Council from 2017-2019 and was a mover and shaker in the Worcester art scene before moving back to New York. Using printmaking, photography, ceramics, and drawing, Amanda creates artworks that explore themes of femininity, sexuality, art history, and the environment. Her work has been displayed in the Worcester and Fitchburg Art Museums, as well as in many galleries regionally. She now lives in New Hampshire.
Hand built Ceramic Vases
“Garden Goddess”
Monotype with linocut collage materials and drawing additions
ARTIST STATEMENTAmanda Kidd-Kestler is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses printmaking, ceramics, photography and sculpture to create works that confront themes of gender, sexuality, art history, and the environment. She is inspired by mythology and stories, often depicting fragments of them in her work. In many of her works the artist references Ovid’s Metamorphosis, and captures the moment of transformation from goddess into nature. The goddess characters in Ovid’s masterpiece use their powers to transform into trees, bodies of water, and other natural forms, as a way to escape from harm. Abstracting these images and including regional flora and fauna (observed, carved into linoleum, and printed or pressed into clay), renew these stories and ground them in our time.