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Artist of the Month: Amanda Parks

May 11, 2026

Artist Amanda Parks standing beside her spring window mural on the future Meyer Art Center building.

Our Artist of the Month is Amanda Parks, an animator, window painter and illustrator who grew up in Stanwood and graduated from Stanwood High School.

Amanda went on to earn a degree in Animation and Digital Art from DigiPen Institute of Technology. Her hometown backed her the whole way: she received college scholarships from local organizations, including the Stanwood-Camano Area Foundation (SCAF) and the Camano Arts Association (CAA).

Adding color to her hometown

Since graduating, Amanda has brought her skills to art and design projects for small businesses, and she now runs her own art business, Fire Vine Studio. Her work has become part of the Stanwood landscape, too: she created one of the fall-themed banners on the Stanwood Camano Archway between Viking Village and CVS Pharmacy.

A celebration of spring on the Brick Road

You can see Amanda's latest work on the windows of the future Meyer Art Center building along the Brick Road. Her vivid spring scene features a heron surrounded by blooming tulips, daffodils and bleeding hearts, with a red barn in the background.

Detail of Amanda Parks’s window mural showing painted tulips, daffodils and bleeding hearts in bloom.
Tulips, daffodils and bleeding hearts, painted on glass.
Detail of a painted great blue heron standing among spring flowers in Amanda Parks’s window mural.
The heron at the center of the scene.
Detail of a red barn painted in the background of Amanda Parks’s spring window mural.
A red barn, a nod to Stanwood’s farm country.

Through murals and illustrations, Amanda isn't just making art. She's adding color, story and identity to the community she has always called home.

About the Artist of the Month program

Each month, the Meyer Art Center spotlights an Artist of the Month by giving them space at our future building site on West Stanwood's Old Brick Road. The featured artist designs and paints a 6' x 9' window panel in their own style, on view to everyone who passes by.

Learn more about the program or apply

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