About Amy

Amy Bartlett Wright is an accomplished fine artist and public arts muralist. Her paintings of nature and large murals depict animals in habitat as highly visible interior and exterior public art. Her clients include museums, zoos, municipalities, hospitals, nature centers, private businesses and private collectors.

Significant Public Art Interior and Exterior Institutional Commissions

2026 Regan Hospital Unit, Cranston, RI. 9 Original artworks and ten printed murals. National Call for Art winner, all interior artwork RISCA
2025-2022 Save The Bay Aquarium, Newport, RI. seven large mural dioramas
2024 Aquidneck Chiropractic Services, Middletown, RI painted mural (9' x 70')
2024-2021 Sunny Mede Disc Golf. Middleboro, MA 300 ft. wide exterior mural
2024 Newport Animal Hospital 6 large murals for the Boarding Facility
2023 Kettle Pond Wildlife Refuge Exterior 3D garden sculptures built, painted
2021 Anchor Recovery Community Center Mural, Providence, RI (13.5' x 350')
2020 Blackstone River Mural at Cadillac Mills featuring native birds (18' x 54')
2020 The Avenue Concept Artist in Residence painted mural and sculptures, We Are One Flock, Providence, Rhode Island (18' x 64')
2019 Cook Foundation Mural Artist in Residence, Gloucester, VA Watermen, Waterfowl (18' x 83')
2019 Cranston Art Commission selected muralist for Crane Flight (15' x 80')
2018 Town of Middleborough, MA. Selected muralist Herring Run at Kramer Park (12' x 30')
2018 Specs Eyecare Headquarters, Middletown, RI. ('5 x 8') mural for entrance
2017 Buttonwood Park Zoo: Rainforests, Rivers and Reefs multiple murals
2017-2015 Matunuck Oyster Bar map and ceiling murals, botanical murals
2016 Audubon Center of Connecticut, Pomfret. Nestscape Mural (11' x 30')
2015 “Sail to Steam” (14' x 65') Irene Chadbourne Food Pantry, Calais, Maine
2015 The Dunes Club at Ocean Grill Mural (8' x 16')
2014 The National Park Service Tallgrass Prairie Preserve Mural, Kansas.
2013 Coastway Community Bank, Providence Mural: Three Waves (45' x 50')
2012 Audubon Center of Connecticut Grassland Conservation Mural (9' x 11')
2012 USFWS Sachuest Point Visitors Center Habitat Murals Habitat Zones
2011 Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, mural: Fish Flying Balloons
2011 Raritan Valley Community College Tree of Knowledge Mural (12' x 24')
2010 Buttonwood Park Zoo Aquatic Environmental Center murals
2009 Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History: On The Water
2009 National Museum of American Illustration- restoration of James Wall Finn mural
2008 Roger Williams Park Zoo mural and illustrations for new butterfly exhibits
2007 Staten Island Zoo: 5 murals and illustrations for new Reptile Wing
2007 Farmstead Plan for NYC Borough President’s Office, Staten Island, NY
2006 East Greenwich Library Medieval Castle Mural (5' x 27')
2005 Save The Bay Environmental Education Center: Narragansett Bay Mural: Our Living Bay (10' x 30')
2005 Virginia Polytechnic University: Stream Cross Section Poster
2005 Norman Bird Sanctuary: Four landscape paintings for welcome kiosk
2004 Town of Lynnfield, Massachusetts: Two painted graphic murals (30,000 square feet)
2003 Roger Williams Park Zoo: 13 images on permanent exhibit: Stayin’ Alive
2002 US Fish and Wildlife Service, Trustom Pond Mural: Otter Point Mural
2001 Museum of Science, Boston: Wood River Mural (9' x 30')
2001-2000 Buttonwood Park Zoological Society: Bears’ Den Cafe Mural (11' x 100')
1999-2000 Town of New Bedford for Buttonwood Park Zoo: four permanent murals
2000 U.S Fish and Wildlife Service: Sachuest Point Mural (11' x 27') native waterfowl
1996 New England Aquarium: Ponds: The Earth’s Eyes

Recent Exhibition, Fine Art

2026-2024 ongoing shows of fine art and plein air paintings
2025 Providence Art Club, Open Exhibition
2025 D’ArtCenter, Norfolk, VA: Flying and Flowing Exhibit
2024 Solo show of 50 paintings Graham Gallery in Bristol, Rhode Island
2024 Solo show of paintings RI Real Estate, Jamestown, RI
2024 Naturalists Gallery of Contemporary Art in Washington DC “Flow Exhibition”
2024 “The Crow Show&rdquo at The Studio Door, San Diego, California
2024 “Wildlife Wonders” Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
2023 “Encounters with the Animal Kingdom” Janice Mason Art Museum, Cadiz, KY
2023 Ocean View II URI Providence Campus Gallery
2022 Society of Animal Artists Annual Exhibition at Turtle Bay Exploration Park, CA
2022 “Realism Today” at Perkins Museum of Art, NC
2022 Rhode Island Watercolor Society Open Exhibition, Pawtucket, RI
2022 “Winged Things” on line exhibition with Society of Animal Artists
2022 “Under the Surface 2: Art League of Rhode Island, Pawtucket + Providence RI
2021 Las Laguna Art Gallery “Botanical Art and Illustration” December 2-31 on line
2021 Arts on Main, Gloucester, VA “Heart of the River” month of June plein air paintings show
2020 TAG Gallery Open Exhibition Los Angeles, CA
2020 URI, Urban Arts and Culture “Ocean View” in Providence, RI
2019-2006 at RISD, annual Faculty Exhibition at Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence

Teaching Experience

2025-2021, 2017-2015 Guest Professor Brown University
2023 Guest Professor, Rhode Island School of Design The Block Island Experience
2021-1998 Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education
2017, 2016 Guest Speaker and Instructor, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador aboard ships, National Geographic Endeavour I and Islander for Lindblad Expeditions
2016-2006 Advisor Rhode Island School of Design, Continuing Education Natural Science Illustration Certificate Program
2017-2011 Guest Artist J.M. Walsh High School for the Arts, Pawtucket.
2011-2008 Adjunct Professor, Stonehill College Visual and Performing Arts
2010 Artist in Residence, The Gordon School, East Providence, RI
2009, 2007 Morton Arboretum, Lisle Illinois, Instructor
2003 University of Denver, Workshop Instructor through the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators

Honors and Awards

2024 People’s Choice Award Fall Show Portsmouth Art Guild
2024 Honorable Mention Summertime Portsmouth Arts Guild
2022 Signature Membership status granted by Society Animal Artists
2014 Amica Insurance Company Annual Holiday Card Artist
2014 Honorable Mention Open Exhibition at Providence Art Club
2012 Best of America Oil Painters 2011 Who’s Who in America
2011 Honorable Mention 24th International Exhibition on Animals in Art, LSU, L.A.
2011 Award of Merit “Tree of Knowledge” mural, RVCC, New Jersey
2010-2009 Teacher of Excellence in Fine Arts Rhode Island School of Design, Cont. Ed.
2008 Top Twenty Entries Federal Duck Stamp Contest National Tour 2007 Award of Merit for Best of
2007 Projects, New York City. New York Construction for murals painted at Staten Island Zoo Reptile Wing
2006 Rhode Island Monthly named as one of 25 Rhode Islanders to watch in
2006 2002 Merit Award for Illustration, Soil and Water Conservation Society, VA Chapter
1994 Award of Excellence in Education & Illustration, Young Entomologists Society

Publishers

National Geographic Society
Harvard University Press including two titles for E.O. Wilson
Cambridge University Press
Cornell University Press
Virginia Polytechnic University
Houghton Mifflin Company
Earth Wind and Sky
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
The MacDonald & Woodward Publishing Company
Carolina Biological Supply
National Pest Control Association
Western Publishing Company
Neuron Cell cover art
Smithsonian
National Wildlife
New York Times
Chicago Tribune
Advertising Age
The Artists’ Magazine

Corporate Clients

Amica Insurance Company
Guinness, three painting commission for 2006 Calories Campaign
Gorham Silver Company “Nature’s Gallery” porcelain series
Chevron Oil Company
Dow Chemical Company
ICI Americas
Safer, Incorporated

Education

2018 Rhode Island School of Design CE, Certificate in Painting Studies
1990 Rhode Island School of Design CE, Certificate in Scientific and Technical Illustration
1980 University of Maryland, BA in Scientific Illustration, cum laude.
Double major in art and science, fulfilled all requirements for B.A. and B.S.
1978 Internship at Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History