About

Amanda Beasley
Knoxville, TN

Curriculum Vitae
Leadership Philosophy
Artist Statement

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Amanda Beasley

Amanda Beasley is a museum professional, educator, artist, and emerging scholar whose work bridges university museum practice, art-historical inquiry, and contemporary creative research. She holds degrees in Art History and Studio Art (Sculpture) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where her scholarly and studio work received regional and national recognition, including the Dianne Komminisk Mid-South Sculpture Alliance Outstanding Achievement Scholarship. Her recent work has also been shared through presentations with organizations including the College Art Association and Smithsonian Affiliates, alongside grant-supported initiatives that have expanded public access and engagement.

Amanda currently serves as the inaugural Visitor Services Coordinator at the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, where she has built visitor services infrastructure from the ground up while contributing to broader goals related to access, engagement, interpretation, and visitor-centered strategy. Her work has included launching the Elaine Altman Evans Creative Suite, advancing accessibility and engagement initiatives, supporting public programming, and developing approaches to visitor research and data-informed decision-making. Across her museum practice, she is especially interested in how institutions can foster deeper learning, stronger public connection, and more meaningful encounters with art, objects, and ideas.

Alongside her museum work, Amanda maintains an active studio practice shaped by questions of memory, materiality, fragmentation, and form. She sees art-making and museum work as mutually informing practices: each sharpens her interest in interpretation, participation, and the conditions that shape how people encounter and make meaning from visual culture. She is committed to bridging art-making, interpretation, and audience engagement in ways that expand how art is shared, understood, and experienced.

Her broader trajectory is toward museum leadership that integrates interpretation, academic engagement, collection-based inquiry, exhibition development, and public exchange. She is particularly interested in building environments where art, research, and public engagement can intersect in ways that deepen learning, expand access, and invite meaningful dialogue across communities.