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Amy received the First Place Award for Pressing South: A Juried Exhibition of Letterpress Printing from the Southeastern United States for her piece Fragments. This exhibit was held at the Cultural Arts Building Art Gallery (CABAG), University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC in early 2009. Amy's work was on display in two exhibits to finish out the year 2008: 1. DOG-EARED: Revealing the Contents of Artist's Books, Juried Exhibition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (runs from November 10-25, 2008) and 2. Maternal Legends: A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Artist Books, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR (runs from December 5, 2008-January 3, 2009) Amy had a solo exhibition in the Hardman Art Gallery at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. The exhibition, titled The Familiar, ran from September 21- October 13, 2007. The book Kiyoko was chosen for the international juried exhibition, Beyond Words: Artists' Books, at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. It was on display from November 30, 2006-February 12, 2007. Kiyoko received a Purchase Award, making it a part of the permanent collection of the Jessie Ball duPont Library at The University of the South.	setting metal type
Solo Exhibitions: Relativity: Artist’s Books by Amy Pirkle, McDuffie Museum, Thomson, GA, September-November 2009 The Familiar, Hardman Art Gallery, Mercer University, Macon, GA, September 2007 Reflections, The Junior League Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL, May 2007 Fragments, MFA Thesis Exhibition, GorgasFifth Floor Gallery, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, April 2007 Juried/Group Exhibitions: 2010 Inventive Structures: Books Beyond the Codex, Juried Exhibition, Creative Arts Workshop (CAW), New Haven, CT (TW)IN SITE(S)- 2010 Biennial All-Faculty Exhibition, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 2009 Pressing South: A Juried Exhibition of Letterpress Printing from the Southeastern United States, Cultural Arts Building Art Gallery (CABAG), University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC; received FIRST PLACE AWARD Family Ties: Roots Bound, B.B. Comer Memorial Art Museum, Group Exhibition, Sylacauga, AL 2008 2008 West Alabama Juried Show, The Junior League Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL Maternal Legends: A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Artist Books, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR DOG-EARED: Revealing the Contents of Artist's Books, Juried Exhibition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 35th Annual Bi-State Art Competition, Juried Exhibition, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS Fresh Impressions: Contemporary Letterpress Printing, Juried Exhibition, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR The Illustrated Word: An Exhibit of Letterpress Broadsides, Juried Exhibition, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR 2007 2007 West Alabama Juried Show, The Junior League Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL; received SECOND PLACE AWARD Artists’ Books 2007, Juried Exhibition, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Action/Interaction: Book/Arts, Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL, 2007 Southworks 2007, Juried Exhibition, 1902 OCAF Arts Center, Watkinsville, GA Art Students’ League Juried Exhibition, ASL Gallery, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; received MERIT AWARD University of Alabama Book Arts Students, Graduates and Faculty, Group Exhibition, Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, AL Heart & Hands 2, National Juried Exhibition, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Michael Phipps Gallery, and University of Nebraska at Omaha (Traveling exhibition), 2006-2007 Beyond Words: Artists’ Books, International Juried Exhibition, University Art Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, TN; received PURCHASE AWARD, 2006-2007 2006 2006 West Alabama Juried Show, The Junior League Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL; received SECOND PLACE AWARD Bookopolis, 2nd Annual Exhibition, BookWorks, Asheville, NC The University of Alabama Book Arts Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Kentuck Gallery, Northport, AL