Amy Lyn Brand
Amy Brand explores feminist topics through sculpture, drawing, writing, and collecting. Her displayed collections attempt to unravel knots she finds in herself and in her interactions with contemporary society. Amy is a Montgomery County native, an alumna of the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, and The Perkiomen School. She received her BA in Art from Vassar College, where she earned departmental and general honors, as well as membership to the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. She recently finished her MFA in Studio Art at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Awarded Grants
2014
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Amy will advocate support for breastfeeding through a gallery exhibition of her sculpture, drawing, and text. With a mission to inform, desensitize, and shift perspective around the ways we view nourishment, Amy envisions all stages of her project as a two-way dialogue focused around questions rather than definitive statements. The exhibit will explore areas of ambivalence and tension around women’s experiences, revealing both its benefits and demands. Amy seeks to investigate broader feminist topics related to nourishment and nurturing, as well as celebrate and critique the experience of motherhood in our society.
