Rose, 2024
Artist. Activist. Creative Director. Amy pursued her passions and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Upon graduation, she moved to New York City and spent 17 years as an award-winning Creative Director at CBS News. While at CBS, Amy also became an activist, helping to create and brand the Million Mom March for Common Sense Gun Laws on the National Mall in Washington DC, considered the largest march of its time. Her logo and slogan "Looking for a Few Good Moms" garnered extensive local and national media coverage inspiring Putman to continue to use her art to raise awareness of social issues.
Art and design have been a constant in Amy's life, but she found her passion with mixed media and collage. After the market crash of 2008, Amy threw her bank statements in a shredder and spent a year painting and collaging the pieces together, an undertaking that sowed the seeds for her current work.
Motivated by issues of social justice, the results of the 2016 election turned her focus to creating socially conscious art. Her New Jersey exhibition opened a week before the 2020 election. Her art installation combined brown baby dolls in a cage with a Trump "Make America Great Again" campaign sign, a juxtaposition that drew local and national media attention including Newsweek Magazine, WNBC and NJ.com.
Amy exhibits domestically and internationally with her work in many private collections. She is a Trustee of the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey, SKIP of New York and the Trust for Trauma Journalism, a founding member of the New York Collage Ensemble, and Co-Chair of the Artists and Talent Peer Group for the Impact Guild. Her studio is in Manufacturer's Village Artists, East Orange, New Jersey. Amy looks forward to continuing her quest to connect her ever - evolving art with social causes.