“I work conceptually through projects and multiples, with diverse mediums, to trace existence, one step, one glance, one atmospheric shift; at a time.”
Amy Jordan has spent much of her adult life in Western North Carolina before moving back to her native city of Winston Salem, NC. She has worked in various leadership roles within the arts community, including Executive Director of Sawtooth School for Visual Art. Collaboration and curation are important threads throughout her career. Some of the organizations she has worked in collaboration/curation with are Reynolda House Museum of American Art, North Carolina Museum of Art WS, Intergenerational Center for Arts and Wellness, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Mixxer, and Grace Center Gallery.
Jordan created Artists on Art, a public conversational series exploring the uncharted shifts behind the lives of artists and curators.
PROFESSIONAL
Creator | Artists on Art
Guests to date: Michael Sherrill, Endia Beal, Terry Schupbach Gordon, Susan Rostow, Bill Fick, Cora Fisher, Julian Charles, Tommy Priest, Kati Duncan, Paul Travis Phillips, Andy Tenille, Leo Morrissey and Tom Suomalainen
Arts Administrator | Executive Director
Sawtooth School for Visual Art Winston-Salem, NC 2012 - 2023
Interim Executive Director, VP of Innovation, Program Director; Graphics, Printmaking, Fibers, and Art and Wellness
Instructor
Painting, drawing, textiles and printmaking Sawtooth School for Visual Art
Private multi-disciplinary courses Asheville, NC
Curator
Tom Suomalainen | Weston Hammond Sawtooth School for Visual Art
Unpacking Leo Morrissey Sawtooth School for Visual Art Co-curated with Paul Bright
Curator of Exhibitions Grace Center Gallery Curated exhibitions from concept to execution, while establishing a regional juried exhibition with a 20+-year tenure serving Asheville and surrounding counties.
Collaborator
Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine explored connections between art and science.
Intergenerational Center for Arts and Wellness created two working studios for the multi-generational center.
North Carolina Museum of Art WS partnered to build wood fired kilns on museum campus for Sawtooth ceramics program and future programming with NCMA WS
Long Journey Home -Monotypes in Motion Susan Rostow
EDUCATION
Western Carolina University Salem College BA
EXHIBITIONS
2019 Salem College Alum Exhibition Elberson Fine Arts Center WS, NC
2018 Sawtooth Directors Invitational Sawtooth School for Visual Art WS, NC
2018 Bound and Unbound International Juried Altered Book Exhibit. Vermillion, SD
2018 Associated Artists 54th National Juried Art Exhibition Milton Rhodes Center WS, NC Honorable Mention
2016 Art and Wellness Exhibition Sawtooth School for Visual Art WS, NC
2016 The Local Group Exhibition Brooklyn, NY
2015 Dimensions Juried Exhibition Milton Rhodes Center WS, NC
2014 Vivian Beer and Company Sawtooth School for Visual Art WS, NC
2013 Nine Thesis Exhibition Elberson Fine Arts Center WS, NC
2012 Sawtooth Faculty Exhibition Sawtooth School for Visual Art WS, NC
2012 Mother/Daughter Exhibition Bernardins WS, NC
2011 9th Annual Juried Exhibition Grace Center Asheville, NC
2007 Respite Solo Exhibition Grace Center Asheville, NC