Amy H. Echols
Painting from Life in Alabama

    Amy is a graduate of the Alabama School of Fine Arts and received a BFA in Fine Arts from 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. She is now the marketing director at one of the top 10 accounting firms in Alabama - JamisonMoneyFarmer PC. (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/) Kentuck's art festival is the 3rd weekend every October and is one of the top ten festivals in the nation. 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 her adopted poodle Lucy. Her son, Chris Gattozzi attends the Univesity of Alabam and step daughter Christy lives in Atlanta.

Workshops attended:

Cumberland Society of Painters, Nashville, TN - March, 2006
Instructors: Dawn E. Whitelaw, Roger Dale Brown, Michael Shane Neal, Pam Padgett, Jason A. Saunders and Paula Frizbe. www.cumberlandsocietyofpainters.org

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

Scottsdale Artist School - January 2008
Scottsdale, Arizona
Instructor: Nancy Chaboun

Sarah Carlisle Towery Art Colony - October 2009
www.alartcolony.org
Alexander City, Alabama
Instructor: Dot Turnipseed

Juried Show - 2008 Energen Show
Energen Corporation, Birmingham, AL

Juried Show - March 2007
Tuscaloosa Art Guild

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.

Juried Show - The Arts and Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa County,
Annual West Alabama Juried Show - Honorable Mention, November 2007

Oil Painters of Amercia
Associate Member