Artist Name: Amy Aker

I grew up in the heart of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. Home to artists of all kinds, this area was fertile ground for a young creative person. Encouragement and materials were plentiful for art making at an early age. I was fascinated by the versatility of paper to transform space into three-dimensions. Fond memories spring from endless hours pushing the boundaries of form with a stack of paper, crayons and scissors. Sculpture was a first love, but since then many other art forms have surfaced in my work.

My professional background is diverse. Soon after graduating from Mass College of Art with a BFA in Education, I became a print designer at Digital Equipment Corporation. There, I learned how to leverage messaging through color, font and image within the parameters of a page. Skills learned at DEC can be found in many of my works. My next career launched after my youngest child started first grade. Then began my twenty-year love as an elementary art teacher in Chelmsford. Teaching gave me the opportunity to share the infectious enthusiasm I remembered as a young person. I retired from teaching in 2019,

It had always been my plan to focus on becoming a professional artist in retirement. Printmaking, painting from life, making a mask, cutting a shape, creating a splash or spill – for me it’s all a wonderful discovery! Everything I am is layered inside my work – the young girl, the art student, the designer, the wife and mother, the art teacher, the senior citizen. My work is a self-portrait which expresses my past and gives voice to who I’m becoming.

I’m happily involved in the lifelong process of finding my artistic voice. My work is diverse and experimental and it’s what keeps me engaged in the world, and connected to a wonderful group of artists who I’ve been lucky enough to learn from and without whom I’d be lost.

Amy Aker
Western Ave Studio (number changing soon)
amyaker12@gmail.com

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Amy Aker Art

Amy Aker Art

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