EDUCATION
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, MFA; Sculpture Emphasis, 1988–9
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, BFA; Valedictorian, 1986–88
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, 1987
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, 1983
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI; Academic & Artistic Honors, 1981–82
TECHNICAL COURSES
Pratt Fine Art, Courses: metal forging, glass casting; glass cold-working, electroplating, Seattle, WA, 2009–2010
Lincoln Electric Company Welding School, Certification in welding, Cleveland, OH, 2002–2004
TEACHING POSITIONS
University of Washington, Assistant Professor, Sculpture, 3D4M, Seattle, WA, 2007–present
Cleveland Institute of Art, Associate Professor, Chairperson Sculpture Department, Cleveland, OH 2000–07
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Visiting Resident Artist, Sculpture Department, Sabbatical Replacement for Heather McGill, Bloomfield Hills, MI, spring 2006
University of Utah, Tenured Associate Professor, Head of Inter-Media Sculpture, Coordinator of 3D Foundations, Salt Lake City, UT, 1992–99
University of Texas, Visiting Instructor, 3D Foundation, Drawing & Sculpture, Austin, TX, 1990–92
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Sculpture Associate, Skowhegan, ME 1990–93
EXHIBITIONS 2001–2013
(Float), William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2013
Arrest Me, curated by Scott Lawrimore, Punch Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2012
This is Glass, William Traver Gallery, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA, 2012
3D4M Faculty Exhibition, William Traver Galley, Seattle, WA, 2012
Big Drawings, Northwest Craft Center, Seattle Center, Seattle WA, 2010
Messages & Magic: 100 Years of Collage and Assemblage in American Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI 2008–09
Convergence, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH, 2006
The Sculpted Line, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2006
Studio B Sculpture Invitational, in conjunction with ISC conference, Crossroads Cincinnati 2006, Cincinnati, OH, 2006
Arts & Industry: a 30-Year Collaboration, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2003–4
All About Drawing, Eisentrager/Howard Gallery, Lincoln, NE, 2004
The Dog Show, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2003
Mapping Loss, Solo Exhibition, Dublin Arts Council, Dublin, OH, 2003
2002 Degrees, International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art, Johnson Atelier, Mercerville, NJ, 2002
Active Mode: Art About Motion, SPACES, Cleveland, OH, 2001
EXHIBITIONS 1990-2000
Big Drawings, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1999, Stewart Gallery, Boise, ID, 2000
View of Ten, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT, 1999
Below the Surface/In Midair, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 1998–99
ME/WE, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 1998; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, 1999
Curator’s Choice: A Northwest Survey, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT, 1997
Southwest '96, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, 1996
Invitational Exhibition, Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake City, UT, 1996
Amie McNeel, Solo Exhibition, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM, 1994-5
Forms and Fabrication, Art Gym, Portland, OR, 1994
View of Eight, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT, 1994
Lights Fantastic, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX, 1994
Cables and Fins, Solo Exhibition, Salt Lake Arts Council Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT, 1994
Amie McNeel, Solo Exhibition, Alliance for the Varied Arts, Logan, UT, 1994
Invitational Exhibition, Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake City, UT, 1993
Wheels and Axle, Solo Exhibition, Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX, 1992
Texas Dialogue, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX, 1991
Wells and Domes, Solo Exhibition, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, 1991
New Work, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1991
PUBLIC ART AND COMMUNITY PROJECTS
Superior Streetscape, Manka Urban Design, 200K budget, Cleveland Public Art Commission and City of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, 2005
Euclid Corridor Transportation Project - Playhouse Square Site, Manka Urban Design, 250K budget, Cleveland Public Art Commission and Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA), Cleveland, OH, 2005
Art Cares, Auction Benefit for the Aids Taskforce Cleveland, Cleveland Institute of Art and Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 2004–5
RESIDENCIES
Visiting Artist Residency Program, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, 2012
Artist in Residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, 2012
Joint Artist in Residency Program, Clay and Glass, John Michael Kohler Arts Center and Kohler Co., Kohler, Wisconsin; The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 2011
Arts & Industry Residency Program, Iron and Enamel, John Michael Kohler Arts Center and Kohler Company, Kohler, WI, 1999–2000
Djerassi Resident Artist, Woodside, CA, 1999
Ocean Research and Education Society, Gloucester, MA; field studies, aboard Regina Maris, Dominican Republic, 1985
AWARDS AND GRANTS
University of Washington, Hermine Pruzan Faculty Fellowship, School of Art, Seattle, WA, 2010–13
University of Washington, Milliman Endowment for Faculty Excellence Award, School of Art, Seattle, WA, 2010–12
Pilchuck School of Glass, Professional Development Grant, Stanwood WA, 2009
Cleveland Institute of Art, Faculty Development Grant, Advancement in Research, Iron Foundry Workshop, Las Vegas NM, 2007
USA Artist nomination, 2005
Cleveland Institute of Art, Faculty Development Grant, Advancement in Research, Lincoln Electric Company, Cleveland, OH, 2004
Cleveland Institute of Art, John and Maxine Flower Grant, Faculty Development in New Technologies, Cleveland, OH, 2004
Ohio Arts Council, Grant Award, Individual Artists Program, Columbus, Ohio, 2002–3
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Collaborative Installation Grant, Sheboygan, WI, 1998–9
Utah Arts Council, Individual Visual Artist Grant, Salt Lake City, UT, 1997–8
Contemporary Art Award, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, 1996
New Mexico Museum of Art, Exhibition Award, Southwest '96, Santa Fe, NM, 1996
Utah Arts Council, Individual Visual Artist Grant, Salt Lake City, UT, 1995–6
Visual Arts Fellow, Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, UT, 1994–5
Salt Lake Art Center, Utah Arts Council’s Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition Award, View of Eight, Salt Lake City, UT, 1994
Grant Award, Art Matters, Inc., New York, NY, 1992
Dorothea Lange Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1990
Regents' Fellow, Eisner Prize, San Francisco Foundation Scholar, James Phelan Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1989
Marion Hahn Simpson Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1989–9
Margaret A. Barnett Award, Valedictorian, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, 1988
Thomas Hart Benton Scholar, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, 1987
TEACHING AWARDS AND GRANTS
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Distinguished Teaching Award Nomination, 1996
Educational Technology and Distance Education, Starter | Mentor Grant, 1996
Thomas D. Dee Endowment, Grant Award, Colleges of Fine Arts and Humanities, 1996
University Teaching Grants, co-designer and instructor of inter-disciplinary courses: Photo and Computer Installation Site course, Fresco Techniques in Historical and Contemporary Art, 1996
Distinguished Teaching Award Nomination, 1995
Distinguished Teaching Award Nomination, 1994
Thomas D. Dee Endowment, Grant Award, Colleges of Fine Arts and Humanities
Contemporary Sculptural Resource Archive, 1993
University of Texas, Austin, TX
Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Art, 1992
COLLECTIONS
Hahn Loeser & Parks, Cleveland and Cincinnati, OH
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Kohler Company, Sheboygan, WI
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Seattle, WA
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
RW Clark Company, Cleveland, OH
WORKSHOPS, PANELS AND COMMITTEES
San Juan Island Sculpture Park, biannual jury for outdoor sculpture, Friday Harbor, WA, 2013
Pilchuck Glass School Scholarship Selection Committee, Stanwood, WA, 2010
Fulbright Screening Committee for Sculpture and Installation Art, Institute of International Education, New York, NY, 2005–7
The Sculptors Forum, Monumental Spirit: Celebration of David Davis, CSU Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 2004
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Sculpture and Metals Departments, Weld/Technical Workshops, Bloomfield, MI, 2003–06
SPACES Gallery, Artists Opportunity, Cleveland, OH, 2001
Mayor's Office, Percent for Arts Selection Panel, Salt Lake City, UT, 1997–2000
International Sculpture Conference, Studio Educators Panel, San Francisco, CA, 1994
Pacific N.W. College of Art, Speaking on Art, Portland, OR
The Sculpture Center, Window to Sculpture, Exhibition Committee, Cleveland, OH
AIDS Memorial Quilt, Names Project, Utah Steering Committee, Salt Lake City, UT
LECTURES
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
Two Perspectives on Arts and Industry Residencies, Henry Art Museum, Seattle, WA
The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Silver Lake College, Manitowac, WI
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Department of Art, Portland State University, Portland, OR
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Grand Valley State College, Allendale, MI
Kendell College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR
Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Contemporary Arts Group, Salt Lake City, UT
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Honors Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
PRESS
New Glass Review 34, The Corning Museum of Glass, forthcoming, 2013
Michael Upchurch, “UW faculty artists get an ‘A’ at Traver Gallery exhibition,” March 9, 2012, review of 3D4M Faculty Exhibition, William Traver Galley, 2012
Leslie Umberger, “Amie McNeel and Tre Arenz,” Messages & Magic: 100 Years of Collage and Assemblage in American Art, exhibition catalogue, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2008–9, 48
The Sculpted Line | Siblings, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, exhibition catalogue, 2006
Carla Rautenberg, “A Critical Exchange,” Welding Innovation, James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation, vol. XIX, no.2, 2002, pp. 19–21. Cover image/feature article
Christopher Smith, “Images Eternal,” Berkeley Magazine, vol. 2., no. 1., 1996, University of California, pp. 14–17
