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How My Brain Saved My Life Twice: A Memoir, by Amy Stacey Curtis (2026)
She survived a devastating brain injury because she had already survived something harder. For 22 months, Amy Stacey Curtis endured a nonstop suicidal psychosis soon followed by the total loss of speech and head-to-toe muscle control. After two psychiatric wards and 15 months of misdiagnosing doctors, it was finally determined that Amy's brain was severely injured by past Lyme disease. While this inspiring dual-timeline memoir about Amy's triumphs over suicide, childhood trauma, and disability is perfect for readers drawn to stories of resilience, recovery, and the creative spirit, How My Brain Saved My Life Twice could change the conversation around mental health and the hidden dangers of viruses.
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The Color Of Memory, edited by Amy Stacey Curtis (2022)
A sampling of the thousands of color-specific memories shared at Amy Stacey Curtis's major interactive exhibit "The Color Of Memory" in Westbrook, Maine's former high school gym (March 26-April 22, 2022). As the 2022 University of Southern Maine Artist-In-Residence, Amy built a neighborhood of 9 homes---each house, its yard, and its possessions wholly a different color (orange, yellow, blue, white, black, light pink, green, red, and light blue). Participants of this exhibit were asked to think of personal memories sparked by the respective colors, to enter these homes to anonymously write their memories within the homes' respectively colored books inside.
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9 Solo Biennials (Special Edition), by Amy Stacey Curtis (2020)
A 400-page, hard-cover, illustrated memoir documenting Amy Stacey Curtis's 18-year solo-biennial project in Maine's mills. This autobiographical catalogue was made possible through the fiscal sponsorship of Engine (an arts non-profit that propelled the creative community in Biddeford, Maine) and 275 donors. 9 Solo Biennials documents Amy's 18-year commitment to interactive installation from 1998 to 2016---9 solo-biennial exhibits in the vast empty mill spaces of 8 Maine towns, a total of 81 large-in-scope, participatory installations. Each biennial was a 22-month process focused upon a different theme, each exhibit inviting the audience to perpetuate its 9 installations. This narrative includes a foreword by Dr. Owen F. Smith, 9 mill histories, 181 full-color plates, and lists the more than 1,000 patrons, donors, and volunteers who contributed to Amy's long-term project.
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9 Walks, by Amy Stacey Curtis (2013)
A 32-page, paperback, illustrated micro-memoir about a project Amy completed for her 2013-2014 solo exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art (Portland, Maine). For each walk--including a 9-day walk, three 9-hour walks (one where she walked due north from her home without knowing the destination and nearly drowned), a 9-minute walk, and a 9-second walk--Amy captured dead-ahead footage which was subsequently projected in one of nine different locations throughout the museum. Includes an excerpt from "Seeing Process" by Jessica May, used with permission from the Portland Museum of Art. Purchase for $20 plus shipping and applicable tax through Lulu.
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Women, Trauma & Visual Expression, by Amy Stacey Curtis (2005), foreword by Patricia Reis
Drawing from extensive research, ambitious surveys, interviews, and personal experience, Amy Stacey Curtis focuses on how and why women visual artists who have experienced trauma communicate trauma through their work process and imagery. Women, Trauma & Visual Expression compares the lives and work of nine women artists: four from our past--Artemisia Gentileschi, Kaethe Kollwitz, Frida Kahlo, and Eva Hesse--and five contemporaries, including Amy herself, from Chicago, Washington State, San Francisco, New Jersey, and Maine. Amy discusses personal, cultural, and collective trauma, the anatomy of trauma, the history of women's trauma research, the artist's work process and connection to audience, trauma's content, symbols, patterns, and archetypes, trauma and "trauma art" as stigma, and the collective visual manifestation of coping mechanisms used to survive trauma. Amy received her MA in Art and Psychology from Vermont College of Norwich University in 2000, and in 2003, proposed/juried "Women, Trauma & Visual Expression" at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, an international exhibit featuring work by women who have experienced trauma.
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