Amy Funderburk specializes in visionary and participatory artwork using various media. During her 36-year career, she has exhibited work across the US – most recently in a solo exhibition at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, NC. She has also participated in group exhibits in the Republic of Ireland and England, including the 50th Anniversary Conference of The Chalice Well Trust in Glastonbury.

Funderburk was named the 2023 recipient in the category of Innovative and Interdisciplinary Art by the Pamela Howland Independent Artist Fund and Arts Council of Winston Salem and Forsyth County in support of her painting installation, Excavations. Following the honor of a Duke Energy Regional Artist Project Grant, Funderburk was also awarded an Artist Support Grant by the North Carolina Arts Council, The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, and Arts Greensboro for her painting installation, The Portal. Her previous honors and awards include a Women in the Arts grant by the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, an Artist’s Residency Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, and a Visual Artist’s Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council. Three of her works were formerly on loan to the US Embassy in Estonia, and her work is included in the permanent collections of Dubai Aerospace Enterprises in Seattle, The Babcock Graduate School of Business Management at Wake Forest University, Forsyth Technical Community College, NC, and the Artinian Self-Portrait Collection at Appalachian State University, where she graduated summa cum laude with a BS from the College of Fine and Applied Arts.

As a freelance arts writer, Funderburk has contributed to various arts publications since 1994, and currently writes for Art & Object. Funderburk lives in Winston-Salem, NC, and also maintains a studio at the Sternberger Artists Center in Greensboro, NC.

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Art pictured above:

left: Manifestation of Rabbit, oil on linen, 30″ x 36″, 2007, Amy Funderburk, All Rights Reserved
right: Knockfennell by the Shores of Lough Gur, watercolor pencils on paper, 7.5″ x 8.5″, framed to 14″ x 14″, 2005 Amy Funderburk, All Rights Reserved