Micaela Amateau Amato
Micaela Amateau Amato (CFA’68) of Boalsburg, Pa., had more than 40 gouache illustrations featured in Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, a Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era (Eifrig Publishing, 2017), written by Cara Judea Alhadeff. The book, which introduces figures like Baruch Spinoza and Rachel Carson through the fable of a young boy’s journey through time and space, has been endorsed by Eve Ensler, Noam Chomsky, Bill McKibben, and Paul Hawken, and includes a foreword by Vandana Shiva. Since its publication, Micaela and Cara have received several grants for a film adaptation. In April, they shared their work on Zazu Dreams at Harvard Divinity School’s Interfaith Art as EcoSocial Justice Action conference. Micaela’s sculptures and paintings have been shown in group exhibitions across the US. She has edited two other titles, which accompanied exhibitions she curated for the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State: Couples Discourse (2006), which featured work by the late Brice Marden (CFA’61, Hon.’07), and Uncanny Congruencies (2013), both from Pennsylvania State University Press.
From the Summer 2025 issue.