access+ENGAGE Issue 25.1: The Professional
About the artists: Amy Rice is a Minneapolis artist whose work is produced using stencils that she designs and cuts herself. Although this method is basically a form of printmaking, she has the freedom to experiment with color, surface texture, and grouping of objects and thus mood and tone, making each piece unique. She has shown her work in galleries throughout the U.S. and in the U.K. Amy is also known for her advocacy role on the behalf of artists living with mental illness. In 2006 she was named “Mental Health Professional of the Year” by The National Association of Mental Illness/Minnesota and was given the “Arts Accessibility Award” by the Minnesota VSA for her role in making the arts more accessible to people with disabilities. Rice draws inspiration for her work from childhood memories, both real and imagined (or just slightly exaggerated with time), the urban community in which she lives, childhood toys, vintage botanical prints, her dog Ella, bicycles, street art, random found objects, collective endeavors that challenge hierarchy, acts of compassion, downright silliness and things with wings. Jennifer Davis is a prolific Minneapolis-based visual artist whose pieces have been shown in exhibitions all over the country. You can see her work alongside that of Amy Crickenberger Oeth in a new exhibition, News From the Moon, at Rosalux Gallery through January 31. She is also one of the artists behind the bold, collaborative new theatrical work,You're My Kind of Pretty; Davis is co-creator of this performance, along with stage designer Erica Zaffarano and two-time Jerome Fellow Playwright Deborah Stein, actors Jon Ferguson, Sara Richardson and Paul Sommers. The show will be on stage at the Southern Theater in February and March. Keep track of these and a number of other upcoming projects by checking in with her website.
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