Amber Imrie grew up off-the-grid in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, leaving high school at sixteen. They graduated with honors and received the Excellence in Sculpture award from UC Berkeley. During their MFA at Stanford University, their innovative photographic-textile works earned them the Murphy Cadogan award in 2017 and the Anita Squires Fowler Award in 2018. Amber founded Venison Magazine and Camp Venison to foster artistic communities before joining The Alternative Art School in 2020 as a founding team member and teacher alongside curator Nato Thompson. Amber currently resides on the outskirts of Winslow, Arkansas.