About + CV — Amanda Leigh Evans

Amanda Leigh Evans (she/they) is an artist, educator and cultivator investigating social and ecological interdependence. Her work manifests as research-driven ceramic objects, performance, print and digital media, public art, and long-term collaborative systems that encourage dialogue across difference.

Proudly a first-gen college student from a working class family, Evans (b. 1989) spent her childhood doing homework in the breakrooms of beauty salons and climbing on 2x4 frames at construction sites in California’s Inland Empire and rural Nevada County.

Evans’ work oscillates between self-contained work for traditional art spaces and multi-year, site-specific collaborative projects. For five years (2016-21), Evans was an artist-in-residence in a large affordable housing complex in East Portland, OR, where she collaborated with her neighbors to create The Living School of Art, an intergenerational alternative art school that centered the creative practices of their multilingual, multigenerational community. For eight years (2014-2022), Evans was a core collaborator at KSMoCA, a contemporary art museum inside a K-5 public elementary school in Portland, OR. Additionally, Evans has coauthored several multi-year projects engaging the history, politics and ecology of the Los Angeles River through LA Urban Rangers (2011-13) and Play the LA River (2013-15).

Currently, Evans and her collaborator Tia Kramer (together known as DeepTime Collective) are developing When The River Becomes a Cloud (2021-2026), a coauthored contemporary public artwork generated with students at a PreK-12th grade public school in rural Eastern WA. DeepTime Collective were recently one-year artists-in-residence at the Everson Museum, presenting A Day Without A Clock.

Evans holds an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University and a Post-Bacc in Ceramics from Cal State Long Beach. She is Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

︎ Email: amanda.leigh.evans@gmail.com

︎ Instagram: @amandaleighevans

︎CV: Click here to view CV

︎ Teaching Porfolio: I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in ceramics, social practice, sculpture, digital tools, 3D foundations, thesis and professional practices. Click here to view my teaching portfolio.

︎ Socially-Engaged Project Consulting: Are you an artist or institution working on a community-engaged project or proposal? Click here to learn more about my work as a consultant.