Amy Beecher

Amy Beecher is an Assistant Professor at Emerson College's Visual and Media Arts Department, combining visual art practice with critical pedagogy. Her work examines intersections of retail aesthetics and feminist theory through performances like Container Store Cantastoria, which merges MacDowell Colony fellowship research on Cathy comic revisions with avant-garde manifestos.

• B.A. in Visual Art from Brown University
• M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University

Key exhibitions include tbh at Providence College (2021) featuring humor and self-image panels, and performances at Pari Passu Gallery (2021) and Hesse Flatow (2019). Her art practice spans printed props, text-sound installations, and operatic storytelling.

• 2021: Featured in 7 exhibitions across NY, RI, MA, and PA
• 2020: MacDowell Colony Interdisciplinary Art Fellowship
• 2019: Developed Container Store Cantastoria libretto blending retail language with art theory

As a Big Red Shiny contributor and Art Handler magazine participant, she critiques labor relations in art. Her podcast The Amy Beecher Show expands art discourse through media platforms.