Amy Scheidegger is a practicing, collaborative visual artist, passionate arts administrator, and advocate. She received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting & Drawing from East Carolina University in 2005 and Masters of Science in Arts Administration from Drexel University’s graduate program in 2010. In January 2011, she founded the Artistic Rebuttal Project – a grassroots art advocacy initiative that strives to re-enforce and enlighten about the power of the arts. In October 2011, she was nominated a Creative Connector, a recognition pioneered by Leadership Philadelphia. Creative Connectors are “hubs of trust, seen as trustworthy and credible who use art and design to mobilize people around an issue.” This past January she began teaching in the Arts and Entertainment Management Program at Drexel University. Her experience with outreach and design combined with her passion for educating the creatively-minded of this country has grown exponentially with years of coordinating between hundreds of artists, established and emerging.