Press
Button-sized eggs and teapot cities: A peek into the big, wide world of miniatures, NPR
Kelly's work incorporates the tiniest details, like miniscule coffee rings, balled-up tissues the size of pinheads and teeny banana peels.
What Secrets Are Behind the Magic of Miniatures? AO Wants to Know, Atlas Obscura
Artist Amanda Kelly crafts tiny worlds that tell intricate stories.
2024 Artists Respond to TikTok’s Nebulous Future in the US, Rhea Nayyar, Hyperallergic
Amanda Kelly, a miniatures artist in Virginia who posts artwork and tutorials under the name PandaMiniatures, told Hyperallergic that creating her TikTok account in 2020 has been “pivotal in the growth and success of [her] artist career.”
2024 What Miniatures Can Reveal, Jeannette Cooperman
“You were expecting fairy houses? Look elsewhere. For her MFA thesis, Amanda Kelly has been miniaturizing hoards.”
2024 Artist Amanda Kelly Builds Worlds In Her Bedroom, Riley Murtagh, Radford University
2023 Inside the Weird and Wonderful World of Miniatures, Scott Huler, Esquire Magazine
“[Amanda’s] work faces that overwhelming mountain of stuff, and by miniaturizing it, she gave us—or gave at least herself —a moment’s opportunity to control it.”
2023 A Day in the Life of an Influencer with Amanda Kelly and Briana Sepulveda, Access U podcast
2022 Small Worlds, Betsy Biesenbach, Southwestern Living Magazine
2021 Miniaturist artisan Amanda Kelly shrinks Quoted Magazine's cover, Quoted Magazine
2020 Now I’m Here documentary, Polina Sapershteyn
2019 The Book of Mini: Inside the Big World of Tiny Things, Kate Unver, page 61