Amy Scheidegger Ducos

From art school in NC to teaching Arts and Entertainment Management in Philadelphia to living abroad in Quito, Ecuador, Amy has lived a creative life from the very beginning. An artist by age 2, Amy has spent all of her life dedicated to artistic practices.

She is a new mom, a business owner and artist hell bent on using her design and freelance expertise for good.

“Courage Takes Practice” is a retelling of Amy Scheidegger Ducos’ own childhood, refocused through the lens of her daughter, Olivia, who was born in Ecuador. Amy moved from the DC area to a rural town in North Carolina when she was 6, and experienced stark “otherness” in her school because of her unusual last name. Once the town got used the name and found out Amy was a budding artist, Amy experienced an exploitative kind bullying that she did not categorize as bullying until she was older - being seen and popular when something artistic was needed, and then becoming completely invisible afterwards.

This did not deter her form art making, quite the opposite, it did make her absolutely retreat into art making as a way of coping with all the feelings she could not find words for.

Amy runs a Graphic Design and Illustration business, Rock & Roar Creative.