Amy Felder
Mark your calendars for my upcoming solo show!
Mark your calendars to attend Paradise Lost, a solo show featuring my work! My latest work Do Not Leave Food Unattended (shown above) and...
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Amy Felder
- Mar 13, 2021
- 1 min
I Leave No Trace
The National Park Service’s arrowhead emblem inspired the shape of my I Leave No Trace patch, which features Delicate Arch. I like how...
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Amy Felder
- Mar 4, 2021
- 1 min
I Do Not Pick Wildflowers
The warmer weather has me longing for spring and thinking of wildflowers! Image credit: Merit Badge:: I Do Not Pick Wildflowers, 2020 |...
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Amy Felder
- Feb 25, 2021
- 1 min
I Do Not Feed Wildlife
The merit badge I Do Not Feed Wildlife was inspired by a chipmunk we came across while hiking in Yosemite. The chipmunks had been fed so...
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Amy Felder
- Feb 18, 2021
- 2 min
Merit Badges
In today’s world of video games, SMART phones, television, computers, and social media, it is easy to lose touch with nature (Anderson...
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Amy Felder
- Jan 28, 2021
- 1 min
Vandalism in National Parks
To correspond with the demerit badge Tree Carving, I created the wall hanging Vandalism in National Parks. This map shows the number of...
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Amy Felder
- Jan 21, 2021
- 1 min
Tree Carving
My final Demerit Badge is Tree Carving. After coming across several vandalized trees in Rocky National Park, it seemed fitting to make a...
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Amy Felder
- Dec 9, 2020
- 3 min
Sounds of Northern Colorado
Inspired by my demerit badge Noise Pollution, I created a sound map from sounds I recorded over several weeks of research. As Gude (2004)...
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Amy Felder
- Nov 1, 2020
- 1 min
The Loss of Silence
This bright yellow diamond patch resembles a road sign with an infographic of a hiker. Considering the loss of silence and how we cannot...
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Amy Felder
- Oct 26, 2020
- 1 min
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley corresponds with my demerit badge Traffic Jam. Inspired by the passionate wilderness advocate Edward Abbey who suggested...
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Amy Felder
- Oct 5, 2020
- 1 min
Traffic Jam
My demerit badge Traffic Jam features a scene of bumper to bumper traffic in Yosemite Valley. While living in California, we would visit...
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Amy Felder
- Sep 28, 2020
- 2 min
Erosion
I integrate art with geography. Mimicking cartographers, I create maps to correspond with each demerit badge. To illustrate how going off...
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Amy Felder
- Sep 20, 2020
- 1 min
Industrial Tourism is a Threat
“Industrial Tourism is a threat to national parks.” [1] The first patch I made was Off Trail. The Demerit Badge captures a hiking boot in...
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Amy Felder
- Sep 14, 2020
- 2 min
Demerit Badges
Mary Yaeger’s female merit badges helped me find the new direction I wanted to go in with my work. I am interested in how Yeager reframed...
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Amy Felder
- Aug 16, 2020
- 1 min
I Do Not Cause Wildfires
As part of my current series Paradise Lost, I create merit and demerit badges that reframe and modernize the traditional "Leave No Trace"...
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Amy Felder
- Aug 13, 2020
- 1 min
Virtual Studio Visit
Take a sneak peek behind the scenes to my home studio! This is where my art lives when it’s not decorating my home, exhibiting in a...
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