Amy Ahlstrom
Amy Ahlstrom is a textile artist creating conceptual quilts from cotton and silk. She began hand-sewing at five, machine sewing at ten, and sewed her own clothes in her teenage years. After graduating with a BFA in Fiber Arts from Northern Illinois University, she continued her studies, earning a Master of Fine Arts in Fiber from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ahlstrom has quilts in the permanent collections of Google, Capital One and the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and has exhibited at the de Young Museum, Modern Eden, Sylvia White Gallery, Pro Arts, Root Division and the StARTup Art Fair. Her pop-art style is influenced by her experience with silkscreening and her background as a graphic designer and comic book illustrator. Ahlstrom has been nominated for the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Award from the San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art and for the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship. In 2016, she was the inaugural artist for the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles Artist In Residency (AIR) program, and in 2020 her work was selected for exhibition in the first de Young Open. Ahlstrom is a former co-chair for the ArtSpan Open Studios Committee and served as a member of the Exhibitions Committee for the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.
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