About
Amy Honchell is Carroll College’s Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs for the 2025-2026 academic year. In this role, she oversees the college’s academic departments and provides leadership in curriculum development, academic policies, academic program review, and assessment. She is a member of the President’s executive leadership team, serves as the staff liaison for the Board of Trustees Academic Affairs Committee, and serves on numerous faculty and college committees. Prior to her appointment as Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs at Carroll College, Amy served four years as Carroll’s Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and is the college’s Accreditation Liaison Officer to the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.
Honchell’s career spans nearly 3 decades in higher education and the visual arts. She is a professional curator, educator, and researcher who previously worked for Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Maine, and as a Research Associate specializing in Provenance at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, and the Department of Medieval through Modern European Painting and Sculpture.
Honchell is also a practicing artist whose creative work ranges from installations and sculpture to painting and drawing to photography. She was named a Breakout Artist in 2008 by the editors of New City Chicago and received a commission for the Museum of Contemporary Art/Lollapalooza Chicago partnership that same year. She has had solo shows at Lula, Chicago, IL; Eagle Upper Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, KY; LivingRoom Gallery, Chicago, IL; The Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL; and the Bertram N. Linder Art Gallery, Keystone College, La Plume, PA. Honchell has exhibited widely in group shows nationally and at international venues including Tokyo Gei Dai University, Tokyo, Japan; Spéos Gallery, Paris, France; PARACHUTE, Berlin, Germany; and The Gallery Presents, Arnhem, Netherlands.
Honchell relocated to Helena, MT from Chicago, IL in 2021 to join Carroll College. At the time she shared,
My family has a long and beloved history with Carroll College; three generations attended Carroll where all made lifelong friends while discovering their future professional pathways as doctors, engineers, artists, educators, and in Catholic ministry. Carroll’s mission-centered values truly resonate with me and I feel honored to become part of a school community that has been so important to my loved ones. I am ready to come “home” to a school that values service to one’s community and is dedicated to instilling “an enduring wonder for knowledge that will prepare students for leadership and their chosen vocations.”
She took her B.F.A. in Photography with a concentration in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her M.F.A. in Studio Art through the department of Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she served as a faculty member, department chair, and academic administrator for twenty years.