Amy Ropple

While I am primarily a textile artist, I also explore how technology can create art using A/I software. My physical art combines my love of fabric art techniques with a serious bead addiction to create unique, highly embellished, expressive works of art. My work contains images of people, places, and things I find meaningful and important in my world, embellished to the hilt! Additionally, I also explore drawing, painting, mixed media, and digital embroidery as part of living the creative life.

I live in Reading, Massachusetts with a wonderful assortment of critters that include dogs, cats, and parrots, some of which have appeared in my artwork. I teach Visual Art to the best, most creative and fun middle schoolers in the world at W.S. Parker Middle School, also in Reading. I also teach textile workshops and art classes to adults, and have taught a course in Art Quilting at Massachusetts College of Art. Since the age of 35 I've fought an ongoing battle with autoimmune disease and see creativity, both my own and that of my students, as a way to elevate the soul out of the continual discomfort that this disease brings.

I hold both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Studio Art Education (combining personal artistic development and production with a full art education program) from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Mass.

My textile work has been exhibited in local, national, and international exhibits, including "On the Surface" at the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, Mass. Several publications have included my work, including Quilting Arts Magazine and Quilters' Newsletter Magazine. My work is in private collections in the States, Europe, and Australia.