Amy Deal

Amy Deal (b. 1966 Cranberry Prairie, OH) was born to a German potato farmer and a homemaker. Neither were encouraged to seek post high school educations. Especially women, they were to be married.

Amy spent much of her youth leaving the house on her bike. The day would be spent with trips to the pond at the nearby gun club where she would look for unbroken clay pigeons to hold her many gourmet mud pies. She collected wildflowers to grind into pigments for paintings. Amy painted many of her famous mud pies as well as many sidewalks, trees, and clubhouses. She was always walking through the woods or fields to find materials to make art.

In a community where females were expected to get married and raise a family, Amy’s parents made it clear that they would do whatever they could to afford her the opportunity of a college education. Amy knew she wanted to pursue a career in the arts, but knew she needed a career that would be fiscally responsible. Amy received a BFA in Visual Communications from Kent State University, and while working began her MBA studies at Wright State University until she and her husband, Kevin, were happily interrupted by parenthood.

With an early career as a creative director working with public relation fir...

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Communications, Kent State University

2023
• Checking Rain Gauges with Dad, Solo Exhibition, James Cancer Center Gallery, Columbus, OH
• Back from the Woods, Solo Exhibition, Dayton Society of Artists, Dayton, OH
• Intuitive Abstract Paintings, Solo Exhibition,The Winds, Yellow Springs, OH
• RENEWAL: Works About Hope Invitational, Loan Crane Gallery at Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, OH
• Works on Paper, Group Exhibition, Rosewood Art Center, Kettering, OH

2022
• Healing Today, Solo Exhibition, Columbus State College, Columbus, OH
• INTENTION: A Manner of Healing, Solo Exhibition, Fresh A.I.R. Gallery, Columbus, OH

2021
• Art In The City, Solo Installation, PNC Arts Annex, Dayton, OH
• Awaiting Voices, Mi-Sul Gallery, London, UK
• Art Comes Alive, Juried, Art Design Center, Cincinnati, OH
• Summer Salon, Juried, Split Gallery, Omaha, NE
• Midwest Survey, Juried, Indiana University Gallery, Kokomo, IN
• Biophilia, Juried, Edsel and Eleanore Ford House, Detroit, MI
• Beauty of Nature, Juried, Bougie Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Yesterday, Today, Every Day, Juried, Art Mums United, Online
• Frame of Mind, Interpretations of Headspace, Juried, Studios
• On High, Columbus, OH
• 2nd Half, Juried, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
• VARIANC...