Amy Franceschini
Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator living and working in San Francisco. Her art practice questions and challenges social, cultural and environmental systems through interdisciplinary and collaborative practices manifested “on” and “offline” in the form of dynamic websites, installations, open-access laboratories, and educational platforms that encourage new formats for engagement and production. Often taking form as long-term engagements with the public, Amy’s projects interrogate the politics of space and ways that globalization affects the natural and built environment. The images of growth pervading her work invoke an appreciation for finite resources and function as a metaphor to value and nurture our own creative resource. Amy founded Futurefarmers in 1995 and co-founded Free Soil in 2004. Franceschini received her MFA from Stanford University and has had exhibitions at Jack Hanley Gallery, Cooper Hewitt National Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern art and the Whitney Museum of Art.  She is a recent recipient of the Eureka Fellowship and SFMOMA SECA Award and teaches at the San Francisco art Institute, CCA and Stanford University.