Amanda Thackray lives and works in Newark, NJ and holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from Rutgers University. She teaches at SUNY Purchase and Rutgers University. While trained in traditional and contemporary printmaking methods, her work ranges from installation and sculpture, to cast glass multiples, artists’ books, drawing and mixed media works on paper. She exhibits frequently in New York, New Jersey and internationally, and her work is in over a dozen public collections including the Alexander Library Special Collections at Rutgers University, The Center for Book Arts, NY NY, Mediatheque Andre Malraux, Strasbourg France, Yale University, New Haven CT, and The Library of Congress, Washington DC.