B. Amore is an artist, educator and writer who has spent her life between Italy and America. She studied at Boston University, University of Rome, Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara and is the recipient of Massachusetts Cultural grants, a Fulbright Grant, Mellon Fellowship as well as a Citation of Merit Award presented by the Vermont Arts Council.

She is founder of the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in Vermont, an international program for sculptors and co-founder of Kokoro Studio Retreat Center. Amore taught for many years at the Boston Museum School and as an Artist Teacher and Visiting Critic with the Vermont College MFA and ADP programs. She currently offers a private studio consulting service for artists called Inner Eye Resources. Major sculpture commissions are installed in the US and Japan. Among them, The Council Ring at the AnnMarieGarden and Smithsonian Institution, Solomons Maryland; Potomac Garden for the new Environmental Protection Agency, Arlington, VA and the Chelsea Creek Clipper which included sculpture and text for the city of Boston. She is represented by SOHO 20 Chelsea Gallery in New York City.

Life line – filo della vita, her multimedia, six room exhibit, premiered at Ellis Island and has traveled in the US and Italy. An Italian American Odyssey, Life line – filo della vita: Through Ellis Island and Beyond which includes both the visuals and expanded text of the exhibit, was recently published by the Center for Migration Studies, and has been chosen as a National Book Club choice by OSIA. Her sculptures and writing explore memory, the many layered nature of existence and the relationship between human perception and history. She has been a featured writer at the Italian American Writers’ Association, Bluestockings and Brownstone Poets in New York City. Her art reviews have been published by International Sculpture Magazine, Art New England, and creative writing in VIA, Brownstone Poets Anthology, Speaking Memory: Oral History, Oral Culture and Italians in America, among others. She is currently working on a prose sequel to her book.