Amy Bauer

Amy Bauer originally from New Jersey and a lifelong maker, an Artist, Designer, Educator, Creator of Fun-A-Day-LA and Trashion Show Long Beach. She has spent the last decade living in Southern California, embracing all the west coast has to offer and giving back through her visual art and social practice. Amy is a recipient of a Promise Award from the VACNJ and has received local and state grants from California, including the inaugural California Creative Corps grant 23-24. Her art has been shown nationally and internationally including at The Brooklyn Art Library, Visions, The Autry, LAX, ATL, The Makery, Southern California Children’s Museum.

Amy explores environmental themes; tying them into an investigation of the likenesses and frictions between her urban life and her folk art aesthetic. She shares her perception of the landscape she sees along with the intersections of consumerism, rebirth of the mending movement, and climate concerns. Landscapes include scenes of the beach to the mountains from the homes to the workshop floors all connected by fibers produced, discarded and reused. Textiles intended for fashion and interior design industries or sewing and crafting supplies that were created for home use and then discarded upon by overconsumption are the material elements Amy utilizes to create colorful, consumer conscious, eclectic art that sends a message of unity and always looking at the sunny side of life.