Amanda Fletchersmith graduated from VCU in 2004 with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts (BFA.) where she focused on ceramics and jewelry. She has managed custom frame shops and galleries in Virginia.

She has shown at multiple galleries around the metropolitan DC area. Amanda's art can regularly be found at Del Ray Artisans, The Art League at the Torpedo Factory, and at The Fairfax Art League.

"For me, art is compulsive; it's the need to make to see an idea through."

Amanda's mediums include ceramic, watercolor, acrylic, fiber, metal, and mixed media; she prefers to work with traditional techniques applied to non-traditional materials and vice versa. 

Amanda's primary focus is recreating the look and feel of living, moving creatures in her art. Whether fantastical or realistic, Amanda's art primarily revolves around breathing life into artistic interpretations of the natural world. Her pieces draw inspiration from nature and biology diagrams as well as mythology, fantasy, and science fiction.