
Amy Ropple is a textile artist who combines her love of fabric art techniques with a serious bead addiction to create unique, highly
embellished, expressive works of art. She has 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. Her quilted 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 her work, including Quilting Arts Magazine and Quilters' Newsletter Magazine. Her work contains images of people, places, and things she finds meaningful and important in her world, embellished to the hilt! Additionally, Amy explores drawing, painting, collage, hand stitching, mixed media, and digital embroidery as part of living the creative life.
Amy lives in Reading, Massachusetts with a wonderful assortment of critters
that include dogs, cats, and parrots, some of which have appeared in her
artwork. She teaches Visual Art to the best, most creative and
fun middle schoolers in the world at W.S. Parker Middle School, also in
Reading. She teaches textile workshops to adults and has taught a course
in Art Quilting at Massachusetts College of Art. Since the age of 35 she as fought an ongoing battle with RA (rheumatoid arthritis) and sees
creativity, both her own and that of her students, as a way to elevate the soul out of the continual discomfort that this disease brings.
embellished, expressive works of art. She has 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. Her quilted 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 her work, including Quilting Arts Magazine and Quilters' Newsletter Magazine. Her work contains images of people, places, and things she finds meaningful and important in her world, embellished to the hilt! Additionally, Amy explores drawing, painting, collage, hand stitching, mixed media, and digital embroidery as part of living the creative life.
Amy lives in Reading, Massachusetts with a wonderful assortment of critters
that include dogs, cats, and parrots, some of which have appeared in her
artwork. She teaches Visual Art to the best, most creative and
fun middle schoolers in the world at W.S. Parker Middle School, also in
Reading. She teaches textile workshops to adults and has taught a course
in Art Quilting at Massachusetts College of Art. Since the age of 35 she as fought an ongoing battle with RA (rheumatoid arthritis) and sees
creativity, both her own and that of her students, as a way to elevate the soul out of the continual discomfort that this disease brings.