article by Joel Lang, Sunday, December 9, 2018
“I don’t want to purchase anything,” she says. “There’s questioning about what an artist needs to fill the world with. I’m definitely interested in using what already exists, but having a transformational quality about it.”

Amy Bilden article for Whitby School's Passion for learning blog, 2017
"When it comes down to it this exchange is really about change, adaptability, open-mindedness, and being willing to be part of the discussion. We all must be mindful that we may not all hold the same set of experiences and knowledge but that together we might be able to participate in a conversation that may in fact change our thinking."

Amy Bilden article for Whitby School's Passion for learning blog, 2016
"The value of art class goes far beyond helping children develop their skills with painting or sculpture. As kids learn to be artists, they are developing life skills that will help prepare them for their future — whether they become professional artists or not..."

Amy Bilden article for Whitby School's Passion for learning blog, 2015
"In preparation for Whitby School's upcoming production of 13: The Musical, Art Teacher Amy Bilden Budzelek reflects on her experience as an adolescent, and on how the art installation program provides an outlet for her own middle school students..."

Amy Bilden article for Whitby School's Passion for learning blog, 2015
"This year, Whitby's 7th grade visual art have been learning about how artists can prompt change. They have been focusing on Street Art and its ability to highlight issues, change its physical environment, as well as the value of an area..."

Cory Walsh article featured in the Missoulian, December 11, 2014
"Amy Bilden, a Miles City native now living and working in Connecticut, used the most delicate of materials in her exhibition, "Consequence."

Flowers cut from paper, a landscape constructed from Scotch tape, fabriclike sculptures of hot glue and plaster, and installations from spools of thread..."

Article for Whitby School's Teacher Success, 2014
"On the second floor of the PAC, Amy Bilden stretched large sheets of plastic canvas on the ground to create an art installation to coincide with the upcoming Upper School musical production of Urinetown. The sheets ran the entire hallway, and there, on her hands and knees, Bilden worked as students would enter and exit classrooms--some stepping over, some stepping onto the sheet. When a student asked what she was doing (and many did) she politely would look up and give them a full and thoughtful answer, and then quietly return to the plastic sheets, as if finding a familiar rhythm...."

Greenwich Post article, 2012
"...In the workshop, organized by art teacher Amy Bilden, all students participated in assembling the cherry New Gloucester rocker, which pays homage to the spare, graceful design found in the Shaker Community at Sabbathday Lake. As with every one of Thos. Moser’s handcrafted pieces, the chair was signed by its craftsmen — the Whitby students in this case..."

David Hennessey article featured in Stamford Advocate, 2011
"Norwalk artist Amy Bilden tries to capture fragments of her life in art.
Bilden and a group of artists who call themselves Factory Underground Arts, including Donna Davie of Norwalk, Mary Jo Lombardo of Westport and Christine Goldbach of Stratford, showcased their work last Saturday evening at the opening of "Peep Show," an all-media art exhibit in Norwalk..."

Erika Fredrickson article featured in Missoula Independent, 2010
"Amy Bilden started drawing roses after visiting her ill grandmother in the small town of Mountain, N.D. The University of Montana art alumna had taken leave from her job as an art curator in Connecticut to check in on her grandmother in the hospital. Stopping by the house to make sure everything was in order, she saw that her grandmother's rose bush was empty except for one flower. Bilden says she placed the rose in a rose bowl, like her grandmother would have done, and went to the hospital..."