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Royal Sock Cape
Amy shares her conversation with old socks. Phase one involved cutting socks into flat shapes. Then came stitching them together, the socks were not enjoying this phase. They wiggled and disobeyed, not laying flat at almost every former heel. Once the socks were introduced to other pieces of fabric, woven not knitted they understood what it meant to lay flat.
At this point the depth of the 7th Fun-A-Day-LA show sunk in and Amy brought forward the topic of the impact of the number 7 and how close to the number 10 it was. The socks then agreed to Amy’s original idea with modifications. To make a cape with the socks now playing the lead row in celebrating the 7th show by laying flat (sort of) in formation of the number 7.
Amy is the lead organizer for this show. Check out more here from the 2023 and previous shows www.dreamecocrafts.com/fun-a-day-la
Amy shares her conversation with old socks. Phase one involved cutting socks into flat shapes. Then came stitching them together, the socks were not enjoying this phase. They wiggled and disobeyed, not laying flat at almost every former heel. Once the socks were introduced to other pieces of fabric, woven not knitted they understood what it meant to lay flat.
At this point the depth of the 7th Fun-A-Day-LA show sunk in and Amy brought forward the topic of the impact of the number 7 and how close to the number 10 it was. The socks then agreed to Amy’s original idea with modifications. To make a cape with the socks now playing the lead row in celebrating the 7th show by laying flat (sort of) in formation of the number 7.
Amy is the lead organizer for this show. Check out more here from the 2023 and previous shows www.dreamecocrafts.com/fun-a-day-la
Watch the rerun - AmyBauerDesigns: Wearable Art, What is it and How to Get Started - Recorded talk as part of LA Made, LA Public Library.
ART.HAPPENS - a Fun-A-Day-LA collaboration to bring a variety of art forms and events to the public. Show is online and still available to visit.
In New Jersey? Check out the collaborative Painting done at Art Break Day 2022! It is in the children's wing of the Washington Township Public Library 37 E. Springtown Road Long Valley, NJ 07853.
It is part of their permanent collection! Take a picture with it and tag @amybauerdesigns
Amy's Art Cabaret - Meet an artist from anywhere in the world, learn some art techniques and make some art inspired by guests!
Watch via this youtube channel! Read about Amy's Art Cabaret in Art Clout LB.
Follow AmyBauerDesigns on Instagram!
Images below taken at Otis College of Art & Design where Amy was a guest Wearable Artist/Activist/Change Agent.
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-Let's Talk About Art, panel discussion for Art Break Day September 4, 2020 with Amy as one of the guests.
Then take an Art Break with me that same day! 
Art Break Day 2014 drawing by Amy Bauer
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**Interested in conducting art, crafts and/or sewing workshops? Amy can create one-of-a-kind activities suitable for yourself, children, adults or a companies mission. Send her a message at amybauerdesigns(AT)gmail(DOT)com and let's discuss opportunities. Institutions I work with include Elizabeth's Canvas, JCC Manhattan, reDiscover Center, Trade School Los Angeles, Transition Culver City, Otis College of Art & Design, Paniolo Productions, Yarn Bombing Los Angeles and I would love to work with you!
DREAMECO CRAFTS:
Richard Hecht and I had started a side project called Dreameco Crafts. Currently we host Fun-A-Day-LA under that website.
SELECTED NEWS:
-Wearable art inspired by and including Full Circle: re-birth of a tree were shown in Lancaster CA at the Museum of Art & History, May 2018.
-One of my paintings is featured on The Art of Rose Falcone. The post is titled, "Amy Bauer's Art for the Holidays". It is quite the honor. December 2015.
- I'm interviewed in the Argonaut (http://argonautnews.com/art-follows-commerce/) for the Mar Vista artwalk - Steppin Into the Art of Mar Vista and about Dreameco Crafts! "Artist Amy Bauer, who will run the art walk’s eco-friendly scavenger hunt, recently started a craft business with husband Richard Hecht and also thinks that something special is happening in Mar Vista."Mar Vista is at that perfect point where artists can make their own items and get out in the community,” says the recent New York-transplant, who moved from Brooklyn two years ago after witnessing that neighborhood’s shift from an artist’s enclave to a pricy borough out of reach for many in the creative class." November 2015.
Voice of the Village, Tujunga, CA May 2015 Eco Art show.
- My art made the local Tujunga, CA newspaper. I had three pieces in the Eco Art Chapter of the SCWCA. Two of my pieces are behind the man and child and I am talking to a friend in another photo. Very exciting and an honor to be chosen for the show that happened in May 2015.
-February, 21, 2014 was the official date that my Tree Project (Full Circle: re-birth of a tree) was outside for five years. This marks a special anniversary. http://amybauerart.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/5-years-outside/
- I volunteered as a sewing teacher for a great event. So-In, Sew-In: Celebrating the advent of Culver City's plastic bag ban sponsored by Transition Culver City. I taught people how to create reusable bags from repurposed t-shirts. A fun way to spend an evening and a fantastic way to meet new people. December 2014.
-On March 1, 2013 I received an email notification of my acceptance of a proposal I wrote to be an artist for Sing for Hope. A public art event that took place summer 2013 in NYC. Read about my experience receiving that email on my blog plus the covering of the piano in music sheets! http://amybauerart.wordpress.com. From June 1 -15, 2013 the upright piano that I painted and covered in old sheet music had been on display in NYC for the public to play and view. On June 16, 2013 it was transported to the Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center for a celebration with 87 other pianos! Here is a write up about my piano on the Fashion Institute of Technology Art and Design blog: http://blog.fitnyc.edu/artanddesign/2013/06/13/she-took-one-refurbished-piano/ The piano was donated to Visions in NYC an establishment to help the blind and seeing impaired.
-February, 21, 2014 was the official date that my Tree Project (Full Circle: re-birth of a tree) was outside for five years. This marks a special anniversary. http://amybauerart.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/5-years-outside/
- I volunteered as a sewing teacher for a great event. So-In, Sew-In: Celebrating the advent of Culver City's plastic bag ban sponsored by Transition Culver City. I taught people how to create reusable bags from repurposed t-shirts. A fun way to spend an evening and a fantastic way to meet new people. December 2014.
-On March 1, 2013 I received an email notification of my acceptance of a proposal I wrote to be an artist for Sing for Hope. A public art event that took place summer 2013 in NYC. Read about my experience receiving that email on my blog plus the covering of the piano in music sheets! http://amybauerart.wordpress.com. From June 1 -15, 2013 the upright piano that I painted and covered in old sheet music had been on display in NYC for the public to play and view. On June 16, 2013 it was transported to the Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center for a celebration with 87 other pianos! Here is a write up about my piano on the Fashion Institute of Technology Art and Design blog: http://blog.fitnyc.edu/artanddesign/2013/06/13/she-took-one-refurbished-piano/ The piano was donated to Visions in NYC an establishment to help the blind and seeing impaired.
Amy's Sing for Hope piano 2013