The Art of Understanding Our World
Forms Most Beautiful is my love letter to the universe and to our expanding ability to understand it. Each piece is inspired by ourselves within much larger Biological and Cosmological stories. An attempt to make sense of ourselves from magnified vantage points.
Each piece I make and workshop I teach is a way to create paradigm shifts. To alter the manner in which we see ourselves, the people and the living and non living world around us.
Amy Salomone: SciArtist
Let Me Introduce Myself
I am a veteran educator with 23 years of experience in science and art educational spaces. I received a Bachelors of Science in Microbiology and a Masters of Arts in Teaching in Biology Education as well as a Certificate in Natural Science Illustration. I have designed science integrated arts programs from an Physiological Art course which teaches mixed media abstraction to communicate our neurological experiences to Nurse Innovation courses that aim to empower students to solve problems in a health equity space through design thinking. I am an Arts Integration Specialist and merging the arts with the sciences is what comes the most naturally to me.
I wanted to create workshops that not only give people a broader insight into our human experiences, but also create connections and community between participants. We are social animals after all, and building these connections is the antidote to modern society. In the age of "social media" we have never felt more alone. My workshops aim to bridge that gap I see in communities.
Curated Community Building Workshops
From the board room, to the classroom, to the operating room we rely on social connection. Curiosity, Questioning, Empathy for both ourselves and for others, these are essential qualities of strong teams. So often in our professional communities we become disconnected, defensive, or just burnt out. And while breath work might be a small part of the answer, it isn't the definitive answer.
I work with team in order to create personalized, curated experiences that help to foster collaboration, build community and combat the burnout in our over stimulated, hyper stressful environments.
Creative expression is used as a tool to allow team members to question and share in a supportive environment. To break down walls and to develop practices that over time lead to improved well being. The arts are an essential part of our evolutionary past and predate language as our primary form of communication. Creativity and our ability to practice it is not fluff. It is deeply embedded in our physiology and our neurological circuitry.
