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About Me

Bay Area artist Amanda Farrell is a modern hand embroidery artist whose simple, clean lines create expressive works of art. She explores deeply personal themes that celebrate her family and Filipino heritage, using salvaged, upcycled, and vintage fabric, fiber and notions when possible. It’s a meditation on the value, warmth, and authenticity of things made beautiful by human hands, as well as a celebration of the resourcefulness and creativity of immigrant communities.

Her work has been featured in blogs like Kollective Hustle, Apartment Guide, and Martha Stewart Weddings, and she has participated in maker fairs around the country. Her first solo exhibition at 3 Bottled Fish in Oakland featured her most personal works, and included memorial pieces that celebrate lost loved ones. She was recently included in a community exhibition in the McCune Collection at the JFK Library in Vallejo, “Old Hands New Ways,” a study on how different historic techniques are evolving in modern hands. In 2025 she was featured in an exhibit at Art Works Downtown San Rafael, “Repair: An Exploration of Trauma and Healing” which received acclaim in the Marin Independent Journal. She curated her first show, Threads That Tie Us, featuring eight Bay Area fiber and textile artists. This Spring and Summer, she will be partnering with the Asian Art Museum to bring programming to the public in alignment with their Chiharu Shiota exhibition.

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