Biography:
AMY STIELSTRA is a fine artist,
illustrator and art educator living in Franklin,
Tennessee. Her work spans an
eclectic mix of subjects and media including watercolor,
pen and ink, pastel, oil,
acrylic, collage/mixed media and Encaustic
Paint: a technique that
involves painting in layers with hot bee?s wax to which
pigments have been added.
Amy also works as a ?scribe? where she uses her art
talents to perform Visual
Note-taking during a talk or presentation.
An award-winning visual
artist, Amy?s work has appeared in books, magazines
and national advertising. In
addition to Graphic Art, Amy also creates and shows
fine art in a variety of
media. Interactive pieces she produced while serving as
the first Teaching Artist in
the Arts Council of Williamson County?s Artist-in-
Residence program were
featured in The Tennessean. Amy enjoys giving back by
serving with the YMCA Art
Embrace program. Watkins School or Art Kids Program,
Kids On Stage Fine Arts
Camp, and Williamson County Parks and Recreation
to teach art to school
children throughout middle Tennessee. Amy also
designs
and builds sets for Childrens Theatre and Williamson County Schools.
