Amanda Breitbach is an MFA candidate at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and a graduate fellow with the Center for Great Plains Studies. Her photographs, video, and audio work focus on the connections between people and land.

Growing up on a family farm and ranch in the wide-open landscape of eastern Montana fundamentally shaped the way Breitbach sees the world. The framing and interpretation of the view in each of her images was formed by her background, including a deep love and respect for land and the people who work it, as well as a critical interest in the representation and mythology of the American West.

Breitbach will graduate this spring, and her thesis work will be exhibited at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall April 18-22, 2016. Following the lecture at the Center, audience members will be invited to visit the exhibit.

http://www.amandabreitbach.com/