SFWF | Amy Franceschini

Amy Franceschini

Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator living and working in San Francisco. She works with notions of community, sustainable environments, and a perceived conflict between humans and nature. Her work manifests in the form of large-scale installations, dynamic websites, open-access laboratories, and educational formats that collectively question or challenge the cultural, social, and economic systems we live in. Much of her work is informed by the history and currents of the San Francisco Bay Area. Growing up on a farm in the San Joaquin Valley and spending her adult life in San Francisco, she is very familiar with the shifting soils of this region. Her work is pervaded with images of growth, reminding us that both nature and our own creative endeavors are precious commodities that must be nurtured and sustained whether it is on the street or in our own backyards.

In the last three years, Franceschini's work has taken place outside of the museum/gallery space. She has been creating templates and situations which allow the public to become localized and distributed participants in shared experiences. Her aim as an artist and educator is to develop work that makes people challenge their own assumptions and cultivates consciousness. She believes art can be a catalyst for change and the city is a space she wants to continue to explore as a platform for learning, exchange, and surprise.

www.futurefarmers.com/
www.atlasmagazine.com/design/franceschini/