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Paul Amenta - Distinguished Alumni-in-Residence Awardee visits the Department of Art and Design
October 21, 2015
Join us tomorrow night at 5:10 where Paul will speak about Site:Lab having just received the Outstanding Venue Jury Award and also hosted the Grand Prize Jury Award winning project as part of ArtPrize.
Paul Amenta was born in Hammond, Indiana and moved to West Michigan when he was thirteen. He attended Grand Valley State University and received a B.F.A. in Sculpture and Printmaking. After a brief stint in Seattle, Washington and False-start in the graduate program at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, he moved to New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts where he earned a M.F.A. in Fine Arts. He spent eight years in New York and was represented by the Marvelli Gallery. Amenta returned to Grand Rapids in 2006 where he is currently an adjunct professor at Kendall College of Art and Design, teaching courses in the Collaborative Design Studies department. His creative practice has grown to include organizing and curating large collaborative exhibitions in vacant structures in the Grand Rapids area including the ActiveSite projects (’07- ’09), Michigan – Land of Riches, and numerous SITE:LABE (2010 – present) projects.