Amy Echols


              
                
                  Amy Echols is a graduate of the Alabama 
                  School of Fine Arts and received a BA in Fine Arts from the 
                  School of Architecture and Fine Arts at Auburn University. She 
                  has over 25 years experience in design and marketing, 
                  including marketing and sales for the Warner Art Collection in 
                  Tuscaloosa ( http://www.warnermuseum.org/ ) 
                  which consist of one of the largest, privately owned American 
                  art collections in the world. Presently she works part time as 
                  the marketing director for Jamison, Money, Farmer & Company, 
                  P.C. in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (www.jmf.com)

                     Amy  has served on the Board of Directors for Big 
                  Brothers/Big Sisters of West Alabama, the Board of Directors 
                  for the Tuscaloosa Advertising Federation and is currently 
                  serving on the Board of Directors for the Kentuck Art 
                  Association in Northport, Alabama. (www.kentuck.org/) She 
                  was recently appointed to the Art in Architecture Board for 
                  the new federal building under construction in Tuscaloosa by 
                  the Government Services Agency in Washington, DC.

                      Amy, formerly Amy Holt of Montgomery, Alabama, resides in 
                  Tuscaloosa with husband Mike and two adopted poodles, Zut and 
                  Lucy. Her son, Chris Gattozzi, Private First Class/USMC, is in 
                  college and step daughter Christy lives in Atlanta.

                  websites:
                
                  
                  
                  www.amyhechols.com
                
                  

                   workshops attended:
                  Painting the Figure in Paris 
                  - June, 2006

                  Instructor: Nancy Chaboun from Scottsdale, AZ.

                  
                  www.nancychaboun.com

                  

                  Landscape Painting - March, 2007

                  Instructor: Albert Handell and Anita Louise West, Santa Fe, 
                  New Mexico

                  
                  www.alberthandell.com

                  

                  Gallery Show - May 2007

                  Memories in Paris, a collective work by two Alabama artist, 
                  Amy Echols and Gayle Hurley, was exhibited in the Art Gallery 
                  at the Belle Meade Plantation in Nashville, TN. The work was 
                  created while studying on location in France.
                

                

                

 
                  
                  
                  
                  
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