AMELIA FAVAZZA'S Highly Classified

Amelia Favazza (b.1979) is a fiber artist, creative director, wife and mother of two from St. Louis, MO. Drawing from a tradition of sewing, caregiving and service through hospitality passed down from her mother and maternal grandmother, a first generation American, Favazza employs repurposed textiles and hand-dyed fabrics to create color drenched wall installations, each building into a larger enveloping series. Her work explores themes of striving, surviving and finding serenity within the messiness and uncertainty of living; lush artifacts of existence are formed by stitching together fragments of everyday routines. Favazza received a BFA in Visual Communication and a BA in Fibers from Truman State University, coupled with immersive courses in art and Italian history at the Lorenzo De Medici Institute in Florence, Italy in 2001. The artist provides creative direction for national fashion brands, and her fiber art has been exhibited in St. Louis galleries.