Aimée Weintz-ALLEN
Remote Learning, Incline - 2020.
ART │ WRITING
2025
RESEARCH:
A BIGGER HACK AT THE DAWN OF AI
The Baptistry, Florence, through the eyes of Brunelleschi & Hockney, 2019.
ARTS-BASED PROGRAMS:
Quilt Top Kite, Kiva Beach, 2025.
On Quilts
Some of you know I love and appreciate quilts as an art form akin to sculpture and painting.
Below is a gallery of American quilts in recent photographs taken along the cardinal directions of Lake Tahoe, and its output, the Truckee River.
They are hand pieced, prior to 1955, with the exception of one; showcasing the United States in warm tones (machine pieced, 2000s).
I Failed to display these last summer, in a local Quilt Show & BEE. i hope to get the chance in 2026.
For more of my writing on quilts…
Thanks for visiting.
2024
Happy to Announce:
Took a day job to help manage Reno’s beloved plant shop - Sierra Water. The elevated warehouse boutique is known for its wonderful atmosphere of plants, art and flowers - with a community of creatives behind the scenes, who find joy in providing exceptional service.
Working among bio-diverse plants & fresh flowers, on such a terrific team, is proving to be a profoundly positive and creative decision.
Below, a few shots - for the socials.
Thanks for visiting.
New Work: Photography
Selfie, with a Singularity, 2024.
Singularity, 2024.
2024
HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE:
Exciting chapter Spring/Summer of 2024. Managed operations for the launch of Butter & Salt’s latest venture - Perren Grocery at RanchHarrah. It’s a speed train of a business, so I stepped off at the conclusion of first quarter and its successful opening.
The charmed space - for coffee, fresh pastry and elevated grocery goods is expanding in Reno, as resident cafe at the Nevada Museum of Art and new locations in Tennessee.
2023
ARTS-BASED TEACHING:
Wire Portraits, 9-12th grade. Alpine Academy.
Those of you who know me, know how much I enjoy creative instructional time with kids/youth, and working with high school students (9th-12th grade) is particularly rewarding.
Below is a PORTFOLIO from course Instruction in:
Art Foundations, 2D Mixed Media,
3D Spatial Dynamics & Intro to Design.
2023
New Work: Sculpture
MindSET stacking towers, paper rendition (left). Dark Matter, 2023.
In progress - Posting, 2022 -
Dark Matter, 2023.
2022
New Work: 4D - AUGMENTED REAITY
Finally playing again with “cosmic tumblers” in augmented reality!
My thanks to the UNR staff and students at the DeLaMare Library for their assistance scanning some of the 3D sculptures and prototypes for the MindSET project.
Up until now this project had largely been a K-12 curriculum for teaching STEAM in innovative ways - using the Fibonacci sequence / Golden Ratio. Now, the larger scope of the project is growing too.
The sequence/ratio itself is the point of departure for the bulk of my current work. I’m looking forward to “anchoring” pieces soon; dropping them in AR, in specific locations for viewing in real-time and space.
2022
HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE:
MINDSETS
@PATAGONIA’S EMPLOYEE CRAFT FAIR ⛰⛺⛅
Enjoyed the beautiful winter day at Patagonia’s Employee Craft Fair! I popped-up as a little shop, selling the MINDSETS early childhood curricula, in felt & wood.
2021
On Exhibit: prints w/ overlays in AR
On exhibit, The Bulkhead, in a Lucas Set, giclée print with overlays in augmented reality - Sierra Arts Foundation, SAF Gallery, 12x12, 2021.
2021
TEACHING: MINDSETS
MINDSETS: Art is Learning, by Design, an arts-based curriculum with stacking integrated components across disciplines, levels PreK-12th grade.
MINDSETS are learning materials for integrated STEAM teaching and instruction. Age 4+.
2021
TEACHING - EARLY CHILDHOOD:
You can find me at Patagonia’s Truckee River Child Development Center, seasonally substituting and practicing the REI philosophy with children (from infancy to age 6). Let the wild rumpus start.
2021
NEW WORK: SCULPTURE
1,1,2,3,5, wood, 2021.
One & Zero, cyanotype on paper, 2021.
Contrasts in Dark Energy, cyanotype on paper, 2021.
Superposition, cyanotype on paper, 2021.
Test for Growth Exposure, cyanotype on cotton, 2019.
2020
HOMESCHOOL REMIX:
LOCK-DOWN 2020.
Three kids remote learning @ home resulted in accelerated learning for me too.
Fun Fridays, 3rd grade STEM playdate, Lockdown, 2020.
Fun Fridays, 3rd grade STEM playdate. Lockdown, 2020.
2019
NEW WORK: PHOTOGRAPHY
Four Florentine Self Portraits in Front of Four Camera Obscura, Italy, 2019. This collage was created as I walked for miles in Florence, locating over 60 paintings representing the same subject - The Annunciation; a fascination of mine, as I aim to demonstrate that many of the depictions are visual metaphors, or even allegory, for a phenomena produced via a camera obscura (projected, moving images). I also spent my time there re-enacting experiments with simple mirrors, much the same way many of the great Renaissance masters applied optics for the renderings of their own work.
While in the fall we ventured for 46 days across the country, camping, seeing family, and (of course) collectively learning along the way - over spring the kids continued to “un-pack” their new knowledge and apply it to their studies and projects. Good times.
2018
TEACHING: HOMESCHOOL
Captain Fantastic, Homeschool, 1st Grade, Frisco, CO. 2018.
First Day of School with and among ‘Pando,’ the largest living organism in North America; an aspen grove. Homeschool, 1st and 4th grade - Fish Lake, Utah.