Episode 14: Amy Reidel

Positive Space: Conversation in Art Foundations

Amy Reidel, faculty member at both St. Louis Community College and Saint Louis University and FATE Shout Out Award Winner, discusses happiness, community engagement, privilege and practical tips for projects that encourage critical thinking.

Amy Reidel is a St. Louis-based artist who has exhibited work regionally and nationally since getting her BFA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and her MFA at The University of Tennessee. She has been a resident artist at ACRE (Artists' Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) based out of Chicago, the David and Julia White Artists’ colony in Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica and at the Luminary Center for the Arts in St. Louis. She has exhibited work at venues including the Contemporary Art Museum-St. Louis, ACRE projects gallery in Chicago, and the Amarillo Museum of Art. Her work can be viewed online in the curated artist registries and viewing programs at White Columns and the Drawing Center in New York City. In 2014 Reidel was awarded an Artists’ Support Grant from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis and in 2016 the Critical Mass Creative Stimulus award. Reidel is currently a faculty member at St. Louis Community College and Saint Louis University, as well as Co-Founder and Creative Editor of All the Art: The Visual Art Quarterly of St. Louis.