Jamie Earnest

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Jamie Earnest is from Alabama and holds a BFA in Painting from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art. She received of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship to attend the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art during summer 2015. In 2016, her work was featured at The Andy Warhol Museum. Jamie had her debut solo exhibition at Cindy Lisica Gallery in Houston in 2016. Since then, she has had an additional three solo exhibitions of her work in Alabama and Pennsylvania. She has shown multiple group shows in Pittsburgh, New York, Boston, Texas, Colorado, Alabama and Suzhou, China. In 2019, she received a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center and was accepted to the Brewhouse Distillery Emerging Artist Residency for 2019-2020. In 2020, Jamie began participating in TWIRL: A Decade of Artist Interviews where she will be interviewed for the magazine once a year for ten years to reflect on her practice. She’s passionate about engaging in the local arts community through her jobs, supporting artists, and speaking about the importance of art in our society. Jamie is a nice southern girl with a big heart currently working in Pittsburgh, PA.