Welcome to ClemsonGC, Dr. Bridges!

November 19, 2019

ClemsonGC welcomes Dr. Amanda Bridges to our department

Written by Caroline Schoenberger, class of 2020

We are happy to welcome one of our newest faculty members, Dr. Amanda Bridges. Dr. Bridges comes from Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina to join the Clemson GC team. With her arrival, Bridges brings a well-rounded knowledge of the graphic communications industry and years of experience teaching in the classroom. Bridges is a Boone, North Carolina native that loves being immersed in the mountains. When she is not exploring the mountains, Bridges loves to root for the Atlanta Braves and Tennessee Volunteers (although she now also supports the Tigers). She is a graduate of Appalachian State University’s Graphic Arts and Imaging Technologies program. It was at App State when she discovered her love for teaching. After leaving App State, she decided to further her education at Gardner Webb University and continued to follow her passion for teaching.

Bridges is excited to join the ClemsonGC program where students have the opportunity to design something and see it all the way through production. This is something that she yearned to provide to her former students and is pleased to have a large amount of production equipment to help bring a design to life. Passionate about both the design and production sides of Graphic Communications, Bridges fits right in here at the ClemsonGC program.

One important piece of advice that Bridges would tell students is to keep learning always, even after you leave the program. Being in an ever-changing industry that is so influenced by technology, she advises that continual learning helps to make students adaptable and ready for change after graduation. We are so excited to welcome Dr. Bridges to the program and to see her impact on it. If you see her around Godfrey, feel free to introduce yourself and say hello!