Amy Tromiczak

BIO

Amy Tromiczak is a weaver and textile artist based in the Appalachian region of North Carolina. Her handwovens exhibit a tactile approach to functional pieces, currently creating garments, scarves, and interior textiles. Amy’s dedication to process shows through these works as well as in her exploration of weaving and hand stitching in her studio practice.

Textiles being her primary medium, she also works collaboratively under the pen name Chickadee Lea, creating pieces using various mediums including weaving, stitching, alternative process photography, and printing.

Amy attended the Professional Crafts: Fiber Program at Haywood Community College in Clyde, North Carolina, graduating in 2015. Originally from Minnesota, Amy now lives and works in Bakersville, North Carolina.

Artist Statement

Objects in daily use, at their base level, have an emotionless necessity of function. Color, shape, and pattern are secondary to their purpose, but are how they fit into our lives and how they fit us into the world.

We have so much stuff, quickly and cheaply produced, but still functional, at some level at least. So why do we invest in things made by an individual, with a face, a name? And why do I continue to make these objects by hand when they are also mass produced, and will always exist in excess?

These labors - of love, of compulsion- are extensions of the maker and the world in which they live.

By knowing the hand of the maker, our world is smaller, easier to conceptualize, to embrace. In the masses of people, of objects, we aren’t so alone, or disconnected. Other hands made this, touched this, loved this, and shared it with you.