Drawn from Life: Visual Journaling as a Generative Tool

This session will explore how to use a simple sketchbook as a powerful tool to keep a visual journal. This practice is incredibly useful to visual artists and non-visual artists alike in tapping and preserving the rich narrative potential of our daily lives.

This session will be recorded and shared. Register even if you can't join live.

Meet the Presenter

Amanda Burnham's work has been exhibited widely around the world at venues such as the Berman Museum (PA), American Univeresity Art Museum (DC), the Gershman Gallery (Philadelphia), and Volta (Basel, Switzerland). Among numerous honors, she is a finalist for the 2025 Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize and will have her work exhibited at The Walters Museum in Baltimore, MD from April 19-July 20, 2025. She is a four time recipient of Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Art Council, and a Rubys Grant recipient. 

Amanda's artist book Quorum Call was published by Antenna in 2018; a self published artist book, Rage Faces is part of the permanent collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the New York Public Library. She is currently developing a full-length graphic memoir with her writing (and life!) partner, Adam Fuller. Burnham holds a Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale University School of Art. She is a Professor of Art and Design at Towson University, where she teaches courses in drawing, painting, writing about art, comics, and graphic memoir.

A Note About Pricing

In an effort to make our events as accessible as possible, Scribente Maternum offers a tiered pricing model. While this session is valued at the Partner level, any amount is accepted and any additional support is appreciated. Thank you!