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About Me

Bay Area Filipino-American artist Amanda Farrell is a modern hand embroidery artist whose simple, clean lines create expressive works of art.

Her work has been featured in blogs like Kollective Hustle and Martha Stewart Weddings, and she has participated in numerous maker fairs around the country. Her first exhibition at 3 Bottled Fish in Oakland featured her most personal works, and included memorial pieces that celebrate lost loved ones. Her most recent exhibition in the McCune Collection at the JFK Library in Vallejo was a community showcase of “Old Hands New Ways,” a study on how different historic techniques are evolving in modern hands. She will be included in an upcoming exhibit at Art Works Downtown in San Rafael called “Repair: An Exploration of Trauma and Healing in a Disposable World.”

Her Filipino roots are a mainstay in her art, sometimes incorporating hand-woven fabric from the Easter Weaving Room in Baguio, a collective of Indigenous women who make traditional Cordillera fabric in the Philippines. When possible, she also prefers to use discarded and donated materials, rescuing and transforming them into practical and beautiful art. The resourcefulness and creativity of immigrant communities, born of necessity, has always been both beautiful and sustainable, even before it was cool.

Amanda currently lives and creates in the East Bay and teaches embroidery classes at Love Fest Fibers (San Francisco), The Oakland Asian Cultural Center (Oakland), Mystic (Mill Valley), Fiber Circle Studio (Petaluma), and The Exchange (Vallejo).