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AMBER DOMINGA

"The city is my subject, my canvas and my stage."

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Amber Dominga combines grassroots practices with an academic approach to provide educational online content, arts programming, and resources for the public. Over the years, she has also gained experience through her roles at the Boston Arts Academy, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston (BlueHill & Charlestown Clubs), the Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts in Jamaica Plain and now the Mayor's Office of Art and Culture, in her role as Public Art Project Manager for the City of Boston. Amber has a background in Communication from Hamilton College. 

EXHIBITIONS, LECTURES & PANELS

  • Panelist, The Changing Landscape of Media Coverage of the Arts, moderated by WBUR's Maria Garcia, Boston Art Book Fair 2019

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  • Panelist, Podcasting your net, The Next Edition conference hosted by the Daily Free Press at Boston University, 2019

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  • Lecturer, Lecture for Professor William Marx Art Criticism course, Boston University, 2019

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  • Lecturer, Podcasting Workshop for Madison Park Highschool TV and Video Department, 2018

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  • Panelist, Reporting on the Arts in Boston, hosted by The Whitest Cube and PRX Podcast Garage, Boston 2018

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  • Co-Curator, Innercity Circle: an Intergenerational, Boston 2019 show of Boston based artists, Strand Theater Gallery & Scollay Square Gallery at Boston City Hall, in collaboration with Mfalme Kenyatta and the Dorchester Art Project, City of Boston Opportunity Fund Grant, 2019

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  • Co-Curator, Urban Gala, Urbano Project, funded by Hamilton College Kirkland Endowment, Aug 2014

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  • Co-Curator, Hoods of Boston, Z Gallery, Boston, Aug 2013

AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS  

  • Finalist, 2020 Public Space Invitiational in collaboration with the NIghtingale Community Garden and Dorchester Art Project, sponsored by TD Bank, The Trustees, New Urban Mechanics and the City of Boston

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  • Nominee, Boston Music Awards, Best Podcast Hoodgrown Aesthetic

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  • Levitt Center Social Innovation Fellowship, Hamilton College, 2016

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  • Emerson Collaborative Research Grant, Washington D.C, 2015​

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  • Congressional Art Competition, District Rep for Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States Capitol, 2012

FINE ARTS PRACTICE

  • Boston Arts Academy, 2008-2012 

  • Fashion Institute of Technology Summer Studios, 2008, 2010

  • The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 2012

  • Putney School Summer Arts Intensive, 2011

  • Art Students League of New York, 2011-present

  • The Museum of Fine Arts, 2017

  • Mass Art Saturday Studios, 2007

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