Amanda Kalinoski Post is a visual artist and mother living in Nevada County. She has a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Print, Paper and Book Arts. She utilizes the print form to incorporate the visual aesthetics of repeat patterns. She is a knowledgeable printer and nature enthusiast. She has interned at the Minnesota Center for Book arts and The Women’s Studio Workshop. In 2006 she received a scholarship to study paper making at the Haystack Mountain School of Art and Craft. In 2007 she was co-awarded a soaring gardens artist residency publishing a limited run artist book with co-artist Amanda Thatch. In 2009 she was awarded the Women’s Studio Workshop’s Art-In-Education residency that published her handmade edition of Patterned Pleasures. Amanda has done several freelance design projects working for sub-zero refrigeration, wolf stoves and a logo identity system for Didi’s Downtown restaurant in Frisco, Texas. In 2013 she became a first time parent to a developmentally disabled child. Learning to be a parent and continuing an art practice is challenging and also extremely rewarding.