Amy Havens - Make Art Not War -008

Pardon My Art - Unlocking the Business of Creativity

Amy and have known each other for over 30 year as we went to college together in South Jersey ages ago and, I think she may have been one of the first people to introduce me to the Grateful Dead. Life happens and before the internet and social media we lost touch but thanks to the wonders of technology, Amy and I reconnected again and I rediscovered her and her art.

With a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics and Art Education from Bowling Green State University much of Amy’s art addresses multiple dichotomies – the divergences between craft and art, commercial and fine, childhood naivety and adult sophistication.

Many of her pieces carry a feminist undertone that hopes to nudge people into reconsidering their ideals of womanly beauty and duty.

Amy will tell you more about how she defines herself as an artist, but on paper she is an accomplished welder, painter, patinist, conservator, sculptor and ceramicist. And, Amy is also a beloved art educator working with teenagers at Atlantic City High School in Atlantic City New Jersey.

Amy is also an avid gardener, and I’ve watched her grow some amazing things on her patch of land in Jersey like glass gem corn and some of the coolest veggies. Seeing gardening and the raising of plants as an art, Amy has more power in her green thumbs than Monsanto has law suits against it and it’s a special thing to see an artist spending time creating the opportunity for life to flourish in the soil naturally. It was fun to be chatting with my old friend Amy!

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