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Amanda Walters is a writer, editor, educator, social-practice/community organizer, and multimedia artist working primarily with sculptural forms and textiles. Both her written and visual works explore her relationships to death, nature, motherhood, kinship, and magic. Across media, her works attempt to preserve memories and the intangible energy between humans, between humans and nature, and between humans and the objects that fill our lives. Her sculptural and textile works preserve found objects, recreate and reimagine objects and events from memory, and invent new ways to use, live with, and pay reverence to the ephemera of the day-to-day. Working with ceramics, quilting and applique, dyed and printed fabric, weaving, and with found objects, she sees her practice as one part archivist, one part storyteller, and one part tragic comedian.
She is one half of Feral Fabric, a journal and collaborative social-practice textile project established in the San Francisco Bay Area that has since scattered across the globe. The Feral Fabric Journal is a periodical highlighting textile production in art, activism, and countercultural movements. For its collaborative art projects, they work with the community to make textile art, from story quilts with unhoused communities to banners and flags at protests and parades.
Walters received her MFA in Studio Practice and MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been published by Play Press and exhibited nationally, including a solo show at NIAD Art Center in Richmond, California, and group shows at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago; Berkeley Art Center in Berkeley, California; the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco; San Francisco Arts Commission; Pro Arts! Gallery and Commons, Oakland; SPAACES in Sarasota, Florida; and Southern Exposure in San Francisco, among other places.