Known as the BannerQueen, much of Amy Johnquest's art is rooted in historical advertising for sideshows and traveling carnivals. She has created commissioned art work for notables such as; Bruce Springstien and the E Street Band, Disney Magazine, major corporations, and for private collections worldwide. In addition to her sideshow banner art, she creates site specific installations, theatrical set designs, and is director of the Taber Art Art Gallery at Holyoke Community College in western Massachusetts. Recent accomplishments this year include creating the set designs for the debut of the folk opera TRUTH, an installation based on Facebook IDs called 455 Friends, a solo exhibition/installation at University of Massachusetts called My Potential Dates, a joint exhibition Art of the Side Show, at Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, FL. and X Marks The Spot, a site specific installation in collaboration with Sally Curcio and Anne LaPrade Sueth, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY. A frequent lecturer, curator, and friend to creatures great and small, Amy paints and resides in Holyoke Massachusetts. She has many fond memories of vacationing in Pentwater since the early 80s. Amy is an artist-in-residence at Shared Space August 6th-13th. She is painting a banner for Pentwater, featuring The Log displayed in front of the water tower downtown. Amy will present her work at the weekly Sunday slide talk August 12th, and after her presentation she will be teach a free mini-workshop: Design Your Own Sideshow Banner!
www.bannerqueen.com.
www.bannerqueen.com.
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