Amanda Millay Hughes

threefigsart@gmail.com

I am an art-maker and a writer, with a small studio and a daily practice of drawing, painting, and writing. Both as a maker and a viewer, a writer and a reader, I approach my life and the stories we tell as essential parts of the common good.

For many years, I focused on what works of art can do…to enrich a life, to transform communities, to leave hopeful legacies. Today, I am proud to take this understanding, along with my interests in faith, community development, and institutional advancement to the work at the Chapel at Duke University. Engaged by the rich landscape of the Chapel and its many, many friends, I raise essential general operating funds and work to develop innovative programs that will engage as broad a constituency as possible – in the Chapel, on Duke’s campus, in the community, and across new platforms.

About art, I know that direct encounters with works of art hold a curious capacity to increase understanding of the world around us and when we attend to them – looking carefully, critically, and intentionally – these works become building blocks for compassion.

About interfaith work, I am confident that Christian people can (and must) find the deep root of hospitality in our tradition and learn to welcome the ones we find most distant and hold space for honest conversation.

About fundraising, I am assured that as we tell true stories of deep impact we can align resources with ideas that will heal, redeem, and reinvent our communities.

About writing, I turn to William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction “There are many good reasons for writing that have nothing to do with being published. Writing is a powerful search mechanism, and one of its satisfactions is to come to terms with your life narrative. Another is to work through some of life’s hardest knocks—loss, grief, illness, addiction, disappointment, failure—and to find understanding and solace.”

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