photo

photo

photo

AMANDA EICHER

Amanda Eicher, a poet and artist, has lived and worked in San Francisco for the past four years, with intermittent stints in New York and Philadelphia. She primarily makes works based on line, time and geometry, which often take the form of sculptures and drawings. For the past eight years, she has been developing social practice art projects in El Salvador together with students from San Francisco State University.

As part of the Global Art Lab, Eicher, in collaboration with B'Art: Bishkek Art Center, worked with children in Bishkek on a series of workshops focusing both on technical and therapeutic aspects of self-expression and design. The workshops dealt with a variety of forms, including movement, video, sound recording, and traditional craft that investigated ideas about home, familiarity, belonging, and the ideas of here and there. During the course of these workshops, the children created a short video on where children live as well as a substantial sound and video archive of documents and performances, a paper quilt and an embroidered quilt that created a conceptual home in which we all can live, and a series of furnishings and interior design projects that reflected children's ideas of home and warmth and included the children's original designs. Over the course of the project, the children grew as advocates for themselves and their community, feeling comfortable and entitled to work as artists and experts with ideas and information. Much of the work created in Bishkek will be shown in various venues throughout the Bay Area of California.

Back to Global Art Lab