Amanda Dunbar (born 1982) is a Texas-based artist who gained acclaim at an early age for her oil painting skills.
[1] Dunbar is currently listed as a prodigy of the visual arts in the current textbooks for advanced university education entitled Child Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. Amanda Dunbar was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
She moved to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 4 and attended Orleans Wood Elementary School.
Dunbar picked up a brush and created Mother's Touch, a portrait in the French impressionist style of a woman in a blue dress drying her small daughter after her bath.
In 2006 she also became the youngest honoree on record and is the only painter to date to be inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame.
[citation needed] At the age of 15, Dunbar made a decision to become an advocate for children's and artist's causes.
She took part in a documentary entitled The Artist in Me that became a special feature on Mattel's Barbie as Rapunzel DVD, released in 2002 to inspire creativity among children.
[citation needed] ABC World News profiled the artist in 2007 as a "Person of the Week" when Charles Gibson discovered that she had quietly donated over a million dollars to various causes.