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Solo Exhibitions

        2014    The Mayor’s Offices – Board Room, Waterloo City Hall,
                    Waterloo, Ontario
        2013     McCormick Library, Waterloo, Ontario, Vegetationage
        2013     Harper Library, Waterloo, Ontario, LandShapes
        2013     Moksha Yoga Studios, Waterloo, Ontario, 
                     
Expressions in Abstract Agreement
        2012     Moksha Yoga Studios, Waterloo, Ontario, LandShapes
        2012     Princess Cinema Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, LandShapes
        2012      The Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener City Hall, Kitchener, Ontario,
                     
Bodacious Bucolic Extracts
        2011     The Burgundy Room, University of Waterloo Faculty Club,
                     Waterloo, Ontario
        2011     Princess Cinema Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario,
MUKsters!!!
        2011     Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Cambridge, Ontario
                     
Adventures in Canadian Landscapes
        2010    The Mayor’s Offices, Waterloo City Hall, Waterloo, Ontario
        2010    Princess Cinema Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario  
                    
Expressions in Abstract Agreement
        2010    The Performance Studio at the Button Factory, WCAC,
                    Waterloo, Ontario, 
Expressions in Abstract Agreement
        2010    The Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener City Hall, Kitchener, Ontario,
                    
Expressions in Abstract Agreement
        2010    Carousel Clothing, Kitchener, Ontario
        2009    Princess Cinema Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
                    
Expressions from the Floressence
        2007    Bering and James, Houston, Texas
        2006    Karen Derr & Associates, Galveston, Texas
        2006    Morton Street Gallery, Richmond, Texas
        2006    Zebo’s Coffee House, Katy and Tomball, Texas
        2005    Karen Derr & Associates, Houston, Texas
        2005    Zebo’s Coffee House, Katy and Tomball, Texas
        2004    Hot Tops Hair Salon, Houston, Texas
        1998    The Fine Arts Center, Orangeburg, South Carolina
        1998    Huske Hardware Store Micro-Brewery, Fayetteville, North Carolina
        1998    Gallery 122, Fayetteville, North Carolina
        1997    The Fine Arts Center, Orangeburg, South Carolina

 

Group Exhibitions

        2014     Chrysalides House of Art, Waterloo, Ontario
        2014     The Artisan Zone, Kitchener, Ontario
        2014     The Fire and Ice Gala, Leadership Waterloo Region,
                     Waterloo, Ontario
        2013     The Artisan Zone, Kitchener, Ontario
        2013     Box 13, juried show, Double R Steel, Kitchener, Ontario
        2013     Art Allies:
Reunion, presented at The Button Factory,
                     Waterloo, Ontario 
        2013     Chrysalides House of Art, Waterloo, Ontario 
        2013     Maxwell’s House of Music, Waterloo, Ontario 
        2012     Fantasy and Gothica Art Exhibit, Waterloo Festival for
                     Animated Cinema, Chrysalids Theatre, Kitchener, Ontario
        2012     Maxwell’s House of Music, Waterloo, Ontario
        2012     Art Allies:
Coalescence, presented at WalterFedy,
                     Kitchener, Ontario
        2011     Art Allies:
Art Movement, The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
        2011     WCAC
Colors of Art, The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario 
        2011     The Communitech Hub, at the Tannery Building, Kitchener and
                     The Accelerator Center, Waterloo, Ontario,
Organic Poetry
        2010     Box 10, juried show, The Breithaupt Block, Kitchener, Ontario
        2007     Bering & James Gallery, Houston, Texas  
Cinco
        2006     Morton Street Gallery, Richmond, Texas   Fun, Fantasy & Art
        2006     Bering & James Gallery, Houston, Texas  
                     Cinco; Landscapes & Stills
        2006     Mind Puddles, Houston, Texas
        2006     Aroma’s Coffee & Tea House, Houston, Texas
        2006     Winter Street Studios Gallery, Houston, Texas
                     
Alex Daniyel Art Show Benefiting the Periwinkle Foundation;
                     2nd Annual Winter Street Studios Artists Exhibition
        2005     Winter Street Studios Gallery, Houston, Texas
                    
Art on the Avenue:  1st Annual Winter Street Studios Artists  
                    Exhibition
        2005    Morton Street Gallery, Richmond, Texas
        2005    Bering & James Gallery, Houston, Texas
                    
Cinco; The Square Show; April Showers Bring May Flowers
        2005    Augusta Pines Country Club, Spring, Texas
                    
“Havana Nights” Benefiting The Regional Arts Council
        2005    Orangeburg Arts Center, Orangeburg, South Carolina
        2005    George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston Texas
                    
Empower Art Competition
        2005    KGA Compound Group, Houston, Texas
        2005    Galerie Ana Julia Aguado, Zacateros No. 32,
                    San Miguel De Allende, Mexico   
Texas Ten x Ten
        2005    Legal Eagles Gallery, Tomball, Texas   Anniversary Show
        2005    Sippora Gallery, Houston, Texas   In The Minds Eye;
                    Beam Me Up Scottie
        2004    Bering & James Gallery, Houston, Texas
                    
The $100 Box” Benefit for “I Have a Dream”
        2004    Mindpuddles, Houston, Texas, The $100 Box; Benefit for
                    “I Have a Dream”
        2004    Gallery 101, Houston, Texas
                    
Art on the Avenue Benefit Show; Soft Frequency Hard
        2004    Legal Eagles Gallery, Tomball, Texas   Grand Opening
        2002    Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, North Carolina
                     
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Abstract?
        2001    Wake Forest University, The Worrell Professional Center,
                    Winston-Salem, North Carolina
                    The School of Law & The Babcock School Fall Art Show:
                    Organic Language: From Nature to Abstraction  (2000- 2001)
        2001    Davidson County Community College, 
                    The Mendenhall Building,Lexington, North Carolina  
                    Point, Counterpoint  (2000- 2001)
        2000    William Throckmorton Library, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
                     I Could Do That
        2000    Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina
                    
Current Work: A National Competition (Third Place)
        2000    The Sawtooth Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
                    
AAWS - Dimensions 2000: The Art of the New Millennium
        2000    Arts Council Center, Fayetteville, North Carolina
        2000    The Portfolio Gallery, Columbia, South Carolina (1997 - 2000)
        1999    I.P. Stanback Museum at South Carolina State University,
                    Orangeburg, South Carolina
                    
Image, Media, & Technology: Artists and the Creative Process
        1999    Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, North Carolina
                    
Facets of the Prism: Adventures in Color, Form and Family Art
        1999    Gallery 122, Fayetteville, North Carolina   Wet (Best of Show)
        1999    Level Three, Fayetteville, North Carolina   Sun and the Moon
        1998    The Sawtooth Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
                    AAWS - Untitled
        1997    The Fine Arts Center, Orangeburg, South Carolina   Women Artists
        1995    Madison Avenue Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
        1995    Wild Studio and Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
   New Light

 

Public Art

2014      The Brush Off, Contestant, The Museum, Kitchener, Ontario

2014      PAWG Committee Member,
              A Public Arts Works Group for Kitchener, Ontario

2014      ArtsSmart Project Arts Teacher at Forest Hills Public School,
              Kitchener, Ontario

2014      The Brush Off, Contestant, The Museum, Kitchener, Ontario

2013      PAWG Committee Member,
              A Public Arts Works Group for Kitchener, Ontario

2012      Artist in Residence, REAP, The Felt Lab at the Quarry Building,
               St. Jacobs, Ontario, LandShapes

2012     PAWG Committee Member,
             A Public Arts Works Group for Kitchener, Ontario

2011     Juror for Kitchener Consolidated Maintenance Facility
             Public Art Competition

 

Workshops & Presentations Given

2014     “Color Lab”, ”Art From Random Elements”, “Explorations    
              in Tesselations”,
The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario

2014     Live Television Appearance on “Daytime”, on Roger’s Community TV,
             Channel 20, interviewed by Mark Paine at Roger’s Community
             Television Studio, Kitchener,Ontario, January 24

2013     “Visual Literacy”, REAP, The Felt Lab at The Quarry Building,
              St. Josephs, Ontario

2013     “Trouncing the Color Wheel”, “Art From Random Elements”,
              
The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario

2012     “Trouncing the Color Wheel”, The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario

2011     Live Television Appearance on “Daytime”, on Roger’s Community TV,
             Channel 20, interviewed by Jay Changnon at Roger’s Community
             Television Studio, Kitchener,Ontario, January 31

2011     “Art From Random Elements”, “Trouncing the Color Wheel”,
              The Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario

2010     Live Television Appearance on “Daytime”, on Roger’s Community TV,
             Channel 20, interviewed by Jay Changnon at Roger’s Community
             Television Studio, Kitchener,Ontario, January 5

2009     “Art From Random Elements”, Kitchener, Ontario

2008    “But..,But,.. I’m not Creative…” Workshop, Jerrys Artarama,
             Houston, Texas

2006     Demonstration of Techniques, Marble Falls Art League,
             Marble Falls, Texas

2005    “But..,But,.. I’m not Creative…” Workshop, Legal Eagles Gallery,
             Tomball, Texas

2005     Beginning Abstracts with Acrylics Workshop, Amy Ferrari Art Studio,
              Tomball, Texas

2000     A Time to Draw, Orangeburg Fine Arts Center, twice monthly,
             February 3 - November 2. (Drawing group leader.)

1999     Symposium on “Image, Media & Technology:
             Artists and the Creative Process”, I.P. Stanback Museum,
             S.C. State University, Orangeburg, SC.

1998      “Turning Your Doodles into Art” Workshop,
               Orangeburg League of Artists, Orangeburg Fine Arts Center. 


Collections

Grand River Hospital Cancer Center, Kitchener, Ontario

Lyondell Chemical Company Worldwide Headquarters, Houston, Texas

Susan Aude Fisher, News Anchor, Columbia, South Carolina

Corbin Van Arsdale, Texas State Representative, District 130, Houston, Texas

Austin James and Blakely Bering, Bering & James Gallery, Houston, Texas

Acura of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee

Methodist Oaks Retirement Home, Orangeburg, South Carolina Fayetteville Urology Associates, Fayetteville, North Carolina

Numerous private collections in Alabama, California, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Ontario, Sweden, and The Netherlands


Bibliography

“Art Chat”, Cambridge Times, Cambridge, ON, February 17, 2011, page 3

“Snowrenity”, Cambridge Times, Cambridge, ON, February 10, 2011, front page

“What They’re Reading”, Waterloo Region Record, Waterloo, ON, February 12, 2011,     Etcetera page E7

“Art Outside the Box - Box 10 Show and Sale” by Valerie Hill, Waterloo Region Record,   Waterloo, Ontario, November 6, 2010, Record Arts & Life page C1

“Pushing the boundaries of art”, by Laura Carlson, Editor-In-Chief; The Cord, Wilfrid Laurier University Paper, Waterloo, ON, March 24, 2010, page 13.

“Movin’ On Up”, by Nick Keppler, Houston Press, Houston, TX, 
August 31 - September 6, 2006, page 34.

“Subject and Meaning Found in Local Gallery Exhibits”, by Soni Martin,
Up & Coming Magazine, Fayetteville, NC, September 1 - 14, 1999, page 21.

“Ferrari women create a show diverse in style and mood”, Art Beat,
by Melissa Clement, Fayetteville Observer-Times, Fayetteville, NC,
September 3, 1999, Weekender page 19-20.

“Ferrari takes ‘doodles,’ revs up Orangeburg art world with ‘Inkscape’ “,
by Thomas Brown, The Times and Democrat, Orangeburg SC, Thursday,     November 5th, 1998, Vol. 117, No. 309, pages 4B-5B.

“Artist’s work is inspired by shapes, patterns, motorcycle”, Closer Look,
by Melissa Clement, Fayetteville Observer-Times, Fayetteville, NC, August 7,        1998, Weekender page 20.

“April Fourth Friday Artists Draw Inspiration from Air Filters to Pears and Functional Pottery”, by Jolyn Key, Up & Coming Magazine, Fayetteville, NC,
April 29 - May 12, 1998

“Emerging Artist and Community Favorites Featured at Maxwell Street Galleries”,
by Jolyn Key, Up & Coming Magazine, Fayetteville, NC, April 15 - 28, 1998.

 

Education

1986   North Carolina State University, School of Design,
           Raleigh, North Carolina.  Bachelor in Product Design, December 1986. 
           Magna Cum Laude.



© Amy Ferrari 2013