Solo Exhibitions
2015 The Boat House, Kitchener, Ontario
2015 State of the City Breakfast, RIM Park, Waterloo, Ontario
2015 Planning and Public Works Offices, Waterloo City Centre, Waterloo, Ontario
2015 The Mayor’s Offices – Councillor Mark Whaley’s Office, Waterloo City Centre, Waterloo, Ontario
2015 Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, Ontario, Serene Yellow Spaces
2014 Kitchener Public Library – Central Library Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2014 The Mayor’s Offices – Board Room, Waterloo City Centre, Waterloo, Ontario
2013 McCormick Library, Waterloo, Ontario, Vegetationage
2013 Harper Library, Waterloo, Ontario, LandShapes
2013 Moksha Yoga Studios, Waterloo, Ontario, Expressions in Abstract Agreement
2012 Moksha Yoga Studios, Waterloo, Ontario, LandShapes
2012 Princess Cinema Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, LandShapes
2012 The Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener City Hall, Kitchener, Ontario,
Bodacious Bucolic Extracts
2011 The Burgundy Room, University of Waterloo Faculty Club, Waterloo, Ontario
2011 Princess Cinema Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, MUKsters!!!
2011 Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Cambridge, Ontario
Adventures in Canadian Landscapes
2010 The Mayor’s Offices, Waterloo City Hall, Waterloo, Ontario
2010 Princess Cinema Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
2010 The Performance Studio at the Button Factory, WCAC, Waterloo, Ontario
Expressions in Abstract Agreement
2010 The Performance Studio at the Button Factory, WCAC, Waterloo, Ontario
Expressions in Abstract Agreement
2010 The Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener City Hall, Kitchener, Ontario,
Expressions in Abstract Agreement
2010 Carousel Clothing, Kitchener, Ontario
2009 Princess Cinema Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario Expressions from the Floressence
2007 Bering and James, Houston, Texas
2006 Karen Derr & Associates, Galveston, Texas
2006 Morton Street Gallery, Richmond, Texas
2006 Zebo’s Coffee House, Katy, Texas
2006 Zebo’s Coffee House, Tomball, Texas
2005 Karen Derr & Associates, Houston, Texas
2005 Zebo’s Coffee House, Katy, Texas
2005 Zebo’s Coffee House, Tomball, Texas
2004 Hot Tops Hair Salon, Houston, Texas
1998 The Fine Arts Center, Orangeburg, South Carolina
1998 Huske Hardware Store Micro-Brewery, Fayetteville, North Carolina
1998 Gallery 122, Fayetteville, North Carolina
1997 The Fine Arts Center, Orangeburg, South Carolina
Group Exhibitions
2015 Collective Identity’s Fast Forward Waterloo Region, The Museum, Kitchener, Ontario
2015 Stone Soup Blues Pop Up Gallery, The Museum, Kitchener, Ontario
2015 Art District Gallery, Member and Exhibitor; May – December, Kitchener, Ontario
2015 3rd Annual Spring Art Sale In Support of the Waterloo Region Food Bank,
The Accelerator Centre, Waterloo, Ontario
2015 The Fire and Ice Gala, Leadership Waterloo Region, Waterloo, Ontario
2014 Chrysalides House of Art, Waterloo, Ontario
2014 The Artisan Zone, Kitchener, Ontario
2014 The Fire and Ice Gala, Leadership Waterloo Region, Waterloo, Ontario
2013 The Artisan Zone, Kitchener, Ontario
2013 Box 13, juried show, Double R Steel, Kitchener, Ontario
2013 Art Allies: Reunion, presented at The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
2013 Chrysalides House of Art, Waterloo, Ontario
2013 Maxwell’s House of Music, Waterloo, Ontario
2012 Fantasy and Gothica Art Exhibit, Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema
2012 Maxwell’s House of Music, Waterloo, Ontario
2012 Art Allies: Coalescence, presented at WalterFedy, Kitchener, Ontario
2011 Art Allies: Art Movement, The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
2011 WCAC Colors of Art, The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
2011 The Communitech Hub, at the Tannery Building, Kitchener, Organic Poetry
2011 The Accelerator Center, Waterloo, Ontario, Organic Poetry
2010 Box 10, juried show, The Breithaupt Block, Kitchener, Ontario
2007 Bering & James Gallery, Houston, Texas Cinco
2006 Morton Street Gallery, Richmond, Texas Fun, Fantasy & Art
2006 Bering & James Gallery, Houston, Texas Cinco; Landscapes & Stills
2006 Mind Puddles, Houston, Texas
2006 Aroma’s Coffee & Tea House, Houston, Texas
2006 Winter Street Studios Gallery, Houston, Texas
Alex Daniyel Art Show Benefiting the Periwinkle Foundation;
2nd Annual Winter Street Studios Artists Exhibition
2005 Winter Street Studios Gallery, Houston, Texas
Art on the Avenue: 1st Annual Winter Street Studios Artists Exhibition
2005 Morton Street Gallery, Richmond, Texas
2005 Bering & James Gallery, Houston, Texas
Cinco; The Square Show; April Showers Bring May Flowers
2005 Augusta Pines Country Club, Spring, Texas
“Havana Nights” Benefiting The Regional Arts Council
2005 Orangeburg Arts Center, Orangeburg, South Carolina
2005 George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston Texas Empower Art Competition
2005 KGA Compound Group, Houston, Texas
2005 Galerie Ana Julia Aguado, Zacateros No. 32, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico
Texas Ten x Ten
2005 Legal Eagles Gallery, Tomball, Texas Anniversary Show
2005 Sippora Gallery, Houston, Texas In The Minds Eye; Beam Me Up Scottie
2004 Bering & James Gallery, Houston, Texas The $100 Box” Benefit for “I Have a Dream”
2004 Mindpuddles, Houston, Texas, The $100 Box; Benefit for “I Have a Dream”
2004 Gallery 101, Houston, Texas Art on the Avenue Benefit Show; Soft Frequency Hard
2004 Legal Eagles Gallery, Tomball, Texas Grand Opening
2002 Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, North Carolina Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Abstract?
2001 Wake Forest University, The Worrell Professional Center, Winston-Salem,
North Carolina
The School of Law & The Babcock School Fall Art Show: Organic Language
2001 Davidson County Community College, Lexington,
North Carolina Point, Counterpoint
2000 William Throckmorton Library, Fort Bragg, North Carolina I Could Do That
2000 Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina
Current Work: A National Competition (Third Place)
2000 The Sawtooth Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
AAWS – Dimensions 2000: The Art of the New Millennium
2000 Arts Council Center, Fayetteville, North Carolina
2000 The Portfolio Gallery, Columbia, South Carolina (1997 – 2000)
1999 I.P. Stanback Museum at South Carolina State University, Orangeburg,
South Carolina
Image, Media, & Technology: Artists and the Creative Process
1999 Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, North Carolina
Facets of the Prism: Adventures in Color, Form and Family Art
1999 Gallery 122, Fayetteville, North Carolina Wet (Best of Show)
1999 Level Three, Fayetteville, North Carolina Sun and the Moon
1998 The Sawtooth Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. AAWS – Untitled
1997 The Fine Arts Center, Orangeburg, South Carolina Women Artists
1995 Madison Avenue Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
1995 Wild Studio and Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee New Light
Public Art
2015 ArtsSmart Project Arts Teacher at Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute,
Kitchener, Ontario
2015 Art District Gallery, Curation Committee Chair; May – December, Kitchener, Ontario
2015 KWARZ Lab’s KWARZ-Bot, Maker Expo, Kitchener City Hall, Kitchener, Ontario
2015 National Youth Art Week’s eyeGO to the Arts event, Extra Curricular:
“Amy’s Art Attack” Waterloo Public Square, Waterloo, Ontario
2015 PAWG Committee Member, A Public Arts Works Group for Kitchener, Ontario
2015 The Brush Off, Contestant, Button Factory Arts, Ontario
2015 Panelist for Leadership Day, Leadership Waterloo Region, New Dundee, Ontario
2014 The Brush Off, Contestant, The Museum, Kitchener, Ontario
2014 PAWG Committee Member, A Public Arts Works Group for Kitchener, Ontario
2014 ArtsSmart Project Arts Teacher at Forest Hills Public School, Kitchener, Ontario
2013 The Brush Off, Contestant, The Museum, Kitchener, Ontario
2013 PAWG Committee Member, A Public Arts Works Group for Kitchener, Ontario
2012 Artist in Residence, REAP, The Felt Lab at the Quarry Building, St. Jacobs, Ontario
2012 PAWG Committee Member, A Public Arts Works Group for Kitchener, Ontario 2011 Juror for Kitchener Consolidated Maintenance Facility Public Art Competition
Workshops & Presentations Given
2015 “Language of Line” REAP Lunch and Learn Presentation, The Felt Lab,
St. Jacobs, Ontario
2015 “Amy’s Art Lab”, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, Ontario
2014 “Color Lab”, ”Art From Random Elements”, “Explorations in Tesselations”,
The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
2014 Live Television Appearance on “Daytime”, on Roger’s Community TV, Channel 20, Interviewed by Mark Paine at Roger’s Community Television Studio, Kitchener, Ontario, January 24
2013 “Visual Literacy”, REAP, The Felt Lab at The Quarry Building,
St. Josephs, Ontario
2013 “Trouncing the Color Wheel”, “Art From Random Elements”,
The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
2012 “Trouncing the Color Wheel”, The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
2011 Live Television Appearance on “Daytime”, on Roger’s Community TV, Channel 20, interviewed by Jay Changnon at Roger’s CommunityTelevision Studio, Kitchener,Ontario, January 31
2011 “Art From Random Elements”, “Trouncing the Color Wheel”,
The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
2010 Live Television Appearance on “Daytime”, on Roger’s Community TV, Channel 20, interviewed by Jay Changnon at Roger’s Community Television Studio, Kitchener,Ontario, January 5
2009 “Art From Random Elements”, Kitchener, Ontario
2008 “But..,But,.. I’m not Creative…” Workshop, Jerry’s Artarama, Houston, Texas
2006 Demonstration of Techniques, Marble Falls Art League, Marble Falls, Texas
2005 “But..,But,.. I’m not Creative…” Workshop, Legal Eagles Gallery, Tomball, Texas
2005 Beginning Abstracts with Acrylics Workshop, Amy Ferrari Art Studio, Tomball, Texas
2000 A Time to Draw, Orangeburg Fine Arts Center, twice monthly,
February 3 – November 2. (Drawing group leader.)
1999 Symposium on “Image, Media & Technology: Artists and the Creative Process”,
I.P. Stanback Museum, S.C. State University, Orangeburg, SC.
1998 “Turning Your Doodles into Art” Workshop, Orangeburg League of Artists,
Orangeburg Fine Arts Center.
Collections
Communitech, Kitchener, Ontario
Grand River Hospital Cancer Center, Kitchener, Ontario
Lyondell Chemical Company Worldwide Headquarters, Houston, Texas
Susan Aude Fisher, News Anchor, Columbia, South Carolina
Corbin Van Arsdale, Texas State Representative, District 130, Houston, Texas
Austin James and Blakely Bering, Bering & James Gallery, Houston, Texas
Acura of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
Methodist Oaks Retirement Home, Orangeburg, South Carolina
Fayetteville Urology Associates, Fayetteville, North Carolina
Numerous private collections in Alabama, California, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Ontario, Sweden, and Switzerland.
Bibliography
“Fast Food for the Soul”, Kitchener Post, Kitchener, ON, January 31, 2014, front page
“Art Chat”, Cambridge Times, Cambridge, ON, February 17, 2011, page 3
“Snowrenity”, Cambridge Times, Cambridge, ON, February 10, 2011, front page
“What They’re Reading”, Waterloo Region Record, Waterloo, ON, February 12, 2011,
Etcetera page E7
“Art Outside the Box – Box 10 Show and Sale” by Valerie Hill, Waterloo Region Record,
Waterloo, Ontario, November 6, 2010, Record Arts & Life page C1
“Pushing the boundaries of art”, by Laura Carlson, Editor-In-Chief; The Cord,
Wilfrid Laurier University Paper, Waterloo, ON, March 24, 2010, page 13.
“Movin’ On Up”, by Nick Keppler, Houston Press, Houston, TX,
August 31 – September 6, 2006, page 34.
“Subject and Meaning Found in Local Gallery Exhibits”, by Soni Martin,
Up & Coming Magazine, Fayetteville, NC, September 1 – 14, 1999, page 21.
“Ferrari women create a show diverse in style and mood”, Art Beat,
by Melissa Clement, Fayetteville Observer-Times, Fayetteville, NC, September 3,
1999, Weekender page 19-20.
“Ferrari takes ‘doodles,’ revs up Orangeburg art world with ‘Inkscape’ “, by Thomas Brown, The Times and Democrat, Orangeburg SC, Thursday, November 5th, 1998, Vol. 117,
No. 309, pages 4B-5B.
“Artist’s work is inspired by shapes, patterns, motorcycle”, Closer Look, by Melissa Clement, Fayetteville Observer-Times, Fayetteville, NC, August 7, 1998, Weekender page 20.
“April Fourth Friday Artists Draw Inspiration from Air Filters to Pears and Functional Pottery”,
by Jolyn Key, Up & Coming Magazine, Fayetteville, NC, April 29 – May 12, 1998
“Emerging Artist and Community Favorites Featured at Maxwell Street Galleries”,
by Jolyn Key, Up & Coming Magazine, Fayetteville, NC, April 15 – 28, 1998.
Education
1986 North Carolina State University, School of Design, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Bachelor in Product Design, December 1986. Magna Cum Laude.
