Amy Roth

Amy Davis Roth (aka Surly Amy) is a multimedia, science-loving artist who resides in Los Angeles, California. She makes Surly-Ramics and is currently in love with pottery. Daily maker of art and leader of Mad Art Lab. Support her on Patreon. Tip Jar is here.
  • Featured

    Women in Science 50th Edition!

    Today marks an incredible moment in the science and art community that has been blooming over on Mad Art Lab. It also is proof that there are a whole heck of a lot of women in science that you may not know about. Dale at Mad Art Lab has published the 50th edition of his series on Women in Science!…

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  • Book Club

    LAWAAG is Hosting a Meetup With Best-Selling Author Scott Sigler!

    Our book club just got freakin’ REAL! Very excited to announce a special get-together with the author of the Los Angeles Women’s Atheist and Agnostic Group bookclub selection for November! New York Times Best-Selling author, Scott Sigler will join us, in an intimate setting, to do a reading from his latest sci-fi YA book, ALIVE and to talk about how…

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  • Activism

    Secular Los Angeles Ladies, Join us!

    This is just a quick shout out to let you know that LAWAAG has three fun and inspiring meetups on the horizon. If you are in Los Angeles and primarily identify as a woman and like books and art or helping homeless veterans -you might be interested in participating in our next three gatherings! Art and Craft Secular Saturday Gathering…

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  • Events

    Strong Women Characters and GeekGirlCon

    The first person to walk up to my table was Anita Sarkeesian. She looked stunningly beautiful. Her long dark hair had thick strips of bright red dyed in it. She was about my height and wore dark colored clothes. She looked physically very strong and a sense of confidence and intelligence seeped outward from her presence like a warm glow.…

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  • Activism

    Hating on Renoir

    This post originally appeared on Mad Art Lab and is written by the fabulous, Celia Yost. There’s this guy called Max Geller who really has it out for Renoir. Like, to the point of protesting in the streets over Renoir’s inclusion in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Which, I’ve got to admit that’s pretty entertaining, and I love that…

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  • Featured

    Adult Coloring. Does it Actually Have Any Mental Health Benefits?

    There is a big trend in the meditation and self-help communities of adult coloring for relaxation, stress and anxiety reduction. As an artist, I have always looked at my work as a way of helping me to focus and to escape from the stress of the daily grind, but could that same feeling be transferred to the non-artist? And why…

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  • Featured

    Skepticism 101: What is Skepticism?

    Skepticism 101 is a series of posts intended to help people who are new to the concept of skepticism and critical thinking. What is skepticism? Skepticism, while often confused with the word cynicism or cynic, is not actually intended to be a negative when examined as a world view. Skepticism in its noblest form is meant to be a way…

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  • Activism

    Call For Speakers or Other Fun People and Some Help!

    As some of you may know, I started a group in Los Angeles for goddless ladies that meets monthly. In fact, we now meet more than once a month because we started a book club! If you are interested in our book club, it meets the second Saturday of the month at my art studio in the San Fernando Valley…

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