Aimée Weintz-ALLEN
Remote Learning, Incline - 2020.
ART │ WRITING
2025
A BIGGER HACK AT THE DAWN OF AI
The Baptistry, Florence, 2019.
NEW WORK: PHOTOGRAPHY
Below is a small gallery of photographs taken from the four cardinal directions of Lake Tahoe and at its output into the Truckee River, featuring quilts from my small collection. Each of these quilts are hand pieced by American quilters and made prior to 1955 - with the exception of the first; which I refer to as “Made for You and Me.” It represents the United States in warm tones, is machine pieced and quilted, and was made in the last twenty years.
All of these and others were slated to be on exhibit this month at This is Not a Quilt Show, in the Dickerson District, Reno, along with a community quilting-bee for people to gather, talk, and stitch together. Since the event was cancelled due to significant mold exposure where the quilts were housed (not on Dickerson), I wanted to share them here.
I hope I’m able to organize another showcase soon, along with a community quilting bee. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the spectacular backdrop of the Sierras, and the wonderful craft and artistry present in each quilt.
Thanks for visiting!
Head’s up: EVENT cancelled
Quilt Kite, Kiva Beach, Lake Tahoe, California 2025.
CANCELLED: THIS IS NOT A QUILT SHOW, July 4-13, 2025, 2115 Dickerson Rd, Reno, NV.
As my kids would say - Boooooooooo - rubbish!
My personal thanks and appreciation to those supported this quilt event. And my personal apologies for those planning to attend! Here is a link to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the decision to cancel.
2024
Happy to Announce:
Took a “day job” to help manage Reno’s beloved plant shop - Sierra Water. The elevated plant warehouse and 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 the giant plants, fresh and local flowers, and with such a terrific team, is proving to be a profoundly positive and creative decision.
Below, a few shots - for the socials.
New Work: Photography
Selfie, with a Singularity, 2024.
Singularity, 2024.
2024
HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE:
Just wrapped an exciting chapter, managing first quarter operations for Butter & Salt, with their latest venture - Perren Grocery at RanchHarrah.
The charmed space - for coffee, fresh pastry and elevated grocery goods - is an exciting addition to the Reno/Tahoe area, with locations opening soon in Nashville, TN.
Post script: Just announced for August 2025 - Perenn Bakery will be the new resident vendor at Reno’s Nevada Museum of Art!
2023
TEACHING: Student Work!
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.
Here’s a Student Portfolio of their work: Art @ Alpine Academy.
Course Instruction: Art Foundations, 2D Mixed Media, 3D Spatial Dynamics and 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, Lucas Sets, giclée prints with overlays in augmented reality - Sierra Arts Foundation Gallery, 12x12 Show, 2021.
2021
TEACHING: PRE-K+CURRICULUM!
MINDSETS: Art is Learning, by Design, an early childhood learning curriculum with stacking components extending through advanced maths and interdisciplinary studies in science, beyond 12th grade.
Approaching art, in ways that “stack” math and science skills, is a large part of my own studio art practice, which I translate into learning tools made from recycled materials.
2021
TEACHING: EARLY CHILDHOOD
So happy to announce! You can now 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 - 2021.
2021
NEW WORK: CYANOTYPES
Growth Exposure, cyanotype on cotton.
One & Zero, cyanotype on paper, 2020.
Contrasts in Dark Energy, cyanotype on paper, 2020.
Superposition, cyanotype on paper, 2020.
2020
TEACHING: LOCK-DOWN
Fun Fridays, Lockdown, 2020.
Fun Fridays, 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.