About Amy
Born
1964, Cartersville, Georgia, USA
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Spanish: Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, 1987.
79 hours toward an additional, interdisciplinary degree in International Relations; emphases in Political Science, International and US Foreign Policy, Global Challenges, and Latin American Studies
AMY’S STORY
In 2011, Amy self-published a memoir/magic realism/novel/compendium called Rebekah’s Closet. It includes some of her personal history growing up in Cartersville, Georgia. It is also fantastical, and follows the healing, creative and love journey of Rebekah McKenzie, a fictional character.
In 2018, Amy finished a screenplay for Rebekah’s Closet. She wants to see the movie made in her lifetime. It is a story of healing from extreme, generational childhood trauma, through the unconditional support of people who love her, hard work, counseling, medication and more. Amy’s own healing model serves as the infrastructure, and Rebekah’s magical, fragmented reality is the overarching structure.
Rebekah’s Closet is an art film about healing from child sexual abuse.
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About Child Trauma | The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/CAN-Prevention-Technical-Package.pdf
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/trauma-focused-cognitive-behavior-therapy
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Visual Art ::
Grant Awards
6/11: Emerging Artist Fund, The Puffin Foundation, for the benefit of the children of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, enabling the purchase of fine artist materials, in the amount of $1250.
Other Awards
12/22: Artist of the Week, Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville, three industrial paintings featured on The Nashville Sign billboard for a week.
4-10/22: Competition to participate in Artist Entrepreneur Training by Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville. Participant in 8-week class followed by 6-month mentorship and final pitch fest on September 7, 2022.
Publications
Fall/Winter Issue, 2018, Five industrial photographs featured, Volume 68.1, The Carolina Quarterly, published by the University of North Carolina.
3/17: Five industrial photographs published in Obra/Artifact, online literary magazine of Stetson University, MFA of the Americas, Florida.
2016: Pink industrial photograph selected for publication in The Natural World: A Select Collection of Work, See Me, curated by See Me Founder, William Etundi Jr., from the display at the 15th annual SCOPE Art Show on Miami Beach.
Photography
Awards
6/7-8/14: Best in Show for Photography, for industrial photograph IndMachTool2470play, Glen Kessler, Juror, The Woman’s Club of Potomac Art Show and Sale, Potomac, MD.
Commissions
1/07-4/07: Photographer and Design Consultant; Philips, Inc., 2007 Corporate Research Exhibition (CRE), at HomeLab, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; in collaboration with SubMultimedia Research Lab; photography and videography in Puerto Rico from 2/4-10/07; and consulting for the design of the interactive features of an ever-changing, fine art visual and audio experience of Nature, called Protoquadro.
Painting
Solo Shows
11-12/24: Visual Art Group Show, Tropical Paintings, KreateHub, Nashville, TN.
11/24: Visual Art Show, Industrial Photography and Paintings, James Lawson High School, Nashville, TN.
8/24: Visual art show, Paintings, Red 225 Gallery, Nashville, TN.
5/23: Visual art show, Industrial Photographs and Paintings, Gordon Jewish Community Center, Nashville, TN.
10/20-11/20/18: Mixed Media Show, Flatrock Coffee, Tea and More, Nashville, TN.
12/5-1/15/16: Aspects: A Multimedia Art Show, featuring industrial photographs, Studio 66, The Arcade, Nashville, TN.
11/9-12/4/04: "Regeneration: Discovering Layers of Soul in the Abstract," Photography and Paintings, solo show, Ozmosis Gallery, Bethesda, MD.
10/24-11/15/03: “Unlikely Canvases: A Multimedia Experience of the Industrial as Nature;” solo show, Andee Rudloff’s Morris Alley Loft/Studio, Public Theater of Kentucky Gallery and World’s Greatest Studio Tour, Bowling Green, Kentucky; based on industrial photographs, video and sounds, live video in collaboration with TeZ of Sub_Lab in Italy.
12/16-1/16/03: Photography show; solo show, Fido, Nashville, TN.
Writing ::
Grant Awards
9/18: THRIVE Grant, for Harvest Hands Community Development Corporation (harvesthandscdc.org), Spoken Word Immersion, Davidson County Metropolitan Arts Commission, Nashville, TN.
Curator
7/2017-24. Host, in person and online monthly poetry open mic, Gestalt Poetry Open Mic, Nashville, TN.
Publications
1/25: December, Dialectics, and Physics, Mayari Literary Journal, Cycle Edition.
2/25: The Songbirds Sing, Pocket Literary Journal.
12/22/24: The Camera and Other Stories, Alien Buddha Press.
10/24: I Am the Dishwasher, Mayari Literary Journal.
7/24: The Semblance of Equal Grace, Poems Since 2019, Alien Buddha Press.
2024: Blooms and Eternal Plastic Flowers, Bronze Bird Review.
2023: Second Edition, Rebekah’s Closet, self-published on Amazon.
4/1/22: Three poems published online, Anvil Tongue Press.
12/22: It’s Time and Quality of Life, poems published by SALTWeekly, Nashville, TN.
7/22: When Trees Were God, and Disrupted Shamans, poems published online by Anvil Tongue Press, online.
5/22: Smoke Signals to a System, poem published by SALTWeekly, Nashville, TN.
3/22: Underdogs, poem published, Alien Buddha Press, online.
3/22: Bargain with Wildness, poem published, SHIFTWrite, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN.
10/15/19: Self published through Amazon, Volumes I and II of first poetry collection, Nashville, TN.
10/19: Freedom Papers, Gestalt Poetry Open Mic, Feature Poet Anthology, self published on Amazon.
7/18: All Things Planetary, Flatrock Poetry Open Mic, Feature Poet Anthology, self published on Amazon.
3/19/18: Three best scenes from Rebekah’s Closet receive table reading, Female Film Festival, Toronto, Canada.
10/11/17: The feature screenplay Rebekah’s Closet wins best in category, Life Has Been Good to Me, Oaxaca Film Festival 8, Oaxaca, Mexico.
10/16: The screenplay Rebekah’s Closet, copyrighted.
9/15: The poems Roots Still Red and To Ideals, published in Calliope Magazine, Nashville, TN.
8/14: The poem Crevices, published, Mo’ Joe: The Anthology, Edited by John Roche, Beatlick Press, Albuquerque, NM.
12/11: Rebekah’s Closet, published on Amazon and Kindle.
12//02-1/03: “Cortazar’s Beard” published in Versal: the Literary Magazine of wordsinhere, Amsterdam, Holland.
9/13/01: Poetic Voices posted "A Greater Strength" along with other poems submitted by poets in response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01.
9/01: “Memiel” published in Beatlick News, a Nashville Poetry and Arts Newsletter, TN.
1-2/01: Three poems published in WordWrights Magazine, Washington, DC, Issue #21.