Amanda Joy
is a visual artist born and raised in Haiku, Maui. She attended Wake Forest University as a Presidential Scholar for Distinguished Achievement in Art, a University Ambassador for the Arts, and a Richter Scholar for International Independent Studies. While attending Wake Forest University she studied Old Master Painting as a certified Louvre Copyist in Paris, France. She then conducted Independent Research on the art of Balinese woodcarving and Javanese batik textiles in Indonesia. She is a prolific painter, tattoo artist, and the owner of Skelefin Studios.
Currently, she is painting & practicing tattoo at her studio in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.