{"id":3102,"date":"2012-12-19T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:30:24","slug":"amanda-michelle-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/amanda-michelle-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Amanda Michelle Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"smallarmy_amandasmith\"<\/a>Among these works are Darger<\/a>-esque scenes depicting a fierce army of young girls, pristinely dressed in baby-doll dresses and knee-high socks equipped with golden shields and war helmets. Combining ceramics and oil paints (with a dash of gold lustre), Amanda Michelle Smith<\/a> builds a pastoral realm of imagination around childhood curiosities applying firmness and courage to her female characters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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VIA: The Jealous Curator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among these works are Darger-esque scenes depicting a fierce army of young girls, pristinely dressed in baby-doll dresses and knee-high socks equipped with golden shields and war helmets. Combining ceramics and oil paints (with a dash of gold lustre), Amanda Michelle Smith builds a pastoral realm of imagination around childhood curiosities applying firmness and courage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,148],"tags":[524,37,125,1873,525,1868],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-ceramics","tag-amanda-michelle-smith","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-ceramics","tag-henry-darger","tag-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-O2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9917,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/swell-things-no-26\/","url_meta":{"origin":3102,"position":0},"title":"Swell Things No. 26","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"August 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"1.\u00a0Recently installed at the Shatin Park in Hong Kong is Kaleidome, a structure for children to play on. 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