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 is also an Activate Arts Advocacy leader, a Climate Reality Project leader and a member of the Neighborhood Leadership Program Cohort 2025. 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. She is also the recipient of a ClimateLB grant from Youth Action Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Climate Action and Sustainability Office in the City of Long Beach.

 

Her art has been shown nationally and internationally including at The Brooklyn Art Library, Visions Manhattan, The Autry, LAX, ATL, The Makery of Los Angeles, Southern California Children’s Museum and The Long Beach Playhouse.

 

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 founded Creative Art Events, a non-profit whose mission is to empower the creation of community-enriching art events that celebrate creativity, foster connection and promote sustainable practices.

 

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.