hope amico

b.1977

EDUCATION

2012 Louisiana State University Baton Rouge Louisiana

BFA Studio Art, concentration in Printmaking and Book Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 15 YEARS OF KEEP WRITING Olympia Community Print Olympia WA

2018 HOME IS HERE Paper Machine New Orleans

2018 WORLD OF BIRDS St. Coffee New Orleans World of Birds

2016 EXQUISITE EM Wolfman Oakland CA collaborative show with subset collective

2015 TO GET A LETTER SEND A LETTER EM Wolfman Oakland CA

2011 BEST EFFORT COMMUNICATION Ephemeral Gallery Baton Rouge

2006 SOMEPLACE SAFE Sidearm Gallery New Orleans with metal artist Rachel David

SELECT RECENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

2025 LET ‘ER RIP Public Art Portland OR

2024 POSTAL COLLAGE & SPECIAL AGENT COLLAGE COLLECTIVE Collage-A-Rama Seattle WA

2022 PAPERCUTS 2 Collapse Gallery Wenatchee WA

2021 POSTAL COLLAGE 10 George Waters Gallery Elmira NY

2021 PAPERCUTS Collapse Gallery Wenatchee WA

2020 MYSTIC KREWE OF SCISSORS AND GLUE New Orleans

2019 EPHEMERAL GALLERY Fall Show Baton Rouge

2019 UNFAMILIAR VEGETABLES KolajFest New Orleans

2019 TODO LOCO 2 La Casa Verde Barranquilla Colombia

2017 ROLL CALL Paper Machine New Orleans

2017 TRAVEL BY SCREEN Sally Centigrade Gallery Denver

2017 AMPLIFY & MULTIPLY Coburn Gallery Colorado Springs

2012 BFA GRADUATES Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana

2009 Antenna Gallery New Orleans juried handmade book show

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2022-present Collage, Priting & Drawing instructor San Francisco Center for the Book

2021-present Letterpress Instructor Independent Publishing Resource Center

2022-2023 online instructor Minnesota Center for Book Arts

2020 Visiting Artist Olympia Community Print Shop

2018 Teaching Artist at Country Day Creative Arts Summer Program

2017-2018 Visiting Artist Baton Rouge Community College

2016-2017 Letterpress Instructor Baskerville Studios

2016-present Drawing and Collage Instructor through own studio

WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES

2023 Instructor Focus On Book Arts Conference Salem Oregon

2022 Lecturer Ladies of Letterpress Conference, “Printmakers as Agents of Subversion: Letterpress and Social Practice Art”

2022 Speaker San Fransisco Center for the Book, From The Bench series

2019 Co-Guest of Honor Olympia Zine Fest

2018 Kolaj Fest New Orleans

2015 Sculptural Papermaking Penland School of Arts and Craft

2014 Friends of Dard Hunter Annual Meeting San Francisco

2012 Ladies of Letterpress Conference Asheville NC

2008 Experimental Letterpress Penland School Penland NC

RESIDENCIES

2022 Sou’Wester Arts Artist Residency

2006 Penland School of Craft winter residency

HONORS & AWARDS

2018 Platforms Grant for Keep Writing 2018 Summer Census

2014 Abby Watkins Bernon Scholarship, Penland School of Art and Craft

2012 Dean's Medal, Louisiana State University

PUBLICATIONS

2019 Kolaj Magazine Unfamiliar Vegetables