Amanda Muir
Amanda Muir graduated from Skidmore College with a B.S. in Anthropology, which has lead her to explore traditional musical practices and cultural forms of expression and communication. Finding a growing need for museums, research centers, and folklore programs to represent themselves in a visual manner, she took up graphic design to help with educational branding. She was program director for a revolutionary new lecture/ instructional series called the Orpheus Workshop, funded by the Folklore Society of Greater Washington with the aim to learn about other cultures through music and crafts from local artisans. After Harvard’s Design Discovery Summer Program her focus on the intersection of anthropology and design shifted to landscape architecture with the goal to use holistic research of how people and the environment interact in order to create sustainable solutions for climate change.
Her hobbies include horseback riding, reading, and fiddling.