Director
Amy Mall is a multi-disciplinary artist rooted in textile craft traditions. Raised in Chicago and in the Indian Himalayas she uses the creative process as a vehicle to investigate and build meaningful connections. Her love for weaving and community building led to an interest in farming and food. She worked as an intern for The Resource Center, in Chicago, where she was able to participate in a large scale composting project and an urban farm. Later she worked for Angelic Organics, a large CSA farm in Illinois where she was able to work on all aspects of vegetable production while living in community.
Amy enjoys sharing art with others and has been able to do this as a teacher for after school art classes in Chicago, and as the middle school art teacher for Woodstock School in India from which she is an allumus. She also worked for the Arts of Life Studio in Chicago where she mentored artists with developmental disabilities and was able to experience the transformative power of art to affirm voices and build community on a daily basis. She is a mother and continues to garden in Chicago and make her own art that investigates motherhood, time, labor, and pattern. She strives to create work that reconnects people to each other and the natural world.