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Dialogue 


I am invested in conversations at the intersection of craft, pedagogy, collaboration, and the natural world. Below is work I have facilitated, edited or authored in print or in person. Click images below or check out the image view.


Publications Authored, Designed and/or Edited

The Living School of Art: a five-year collaboration of neighbors in an affordable housing apartment complex (2021) in East Portland, OR, Edited and Designed by Amanda Leigh Evans

Hello Neighbor Newspaper, Edited and Designed by Amanda Leigh Evans

This Is Where I Sleep: Photographs by Kids at The Living School of Art (2017), Co-Edited, Designed and Authored by Amanda Leigh Evans and Anke Schuettler

If You Can’t Grow It, You Have to Dig It: A Participatory Clay and Conversation Project on Mining, Rural Geology and Global Industry (2018), Edited, Designed and Authored by Amanda Leigh Evans

Social Objects (2016), Co-Edited and Designed by Amanda Leigh Evans and Mary Callahan Baumstark (with the Socially Engaged Craft Collective)

The Wishing Rocks (2018), Edited, Authored, and Designed by Amanda Leigh Evans (with The Living School of Art)

The Global Table (2016), Co-Edited, Authored and Designed by Amanda Leigh Evans and Krysta Williams

The KSMoCA Artist Mentorship Program (2018), interviews with mentor-mentee pairs at KSMoCA

Writing, Talks, + Interviews





After We Die (December 2022), interview by Midori Yamanaka for Social Forms of Art (SoFA) Journal

Social Practice as Conceptual Ceramics (2021), talk for Ceramics Congress

Living as Pedagogy: a four-part meditation on an ongoing, collaborative artwork among apartment neighbors (June 2022),
Social Forms of Art (SoFA) Journal

Shaped By The People: Conversations on Participatory Education (2019), Edited by Harrell Fletcher and Molly Sherman, featuring Amanda Leigh Evans in conversation with The Living School of Art.

An Open Letter to CFile (01.19.20), written by Amanda Leigh Evans

Talk to The Gun (2015), Edited by Gemma Rose Turnbull and published by Publication Studio, featuring Amanda Leigh Evans in conversation with her mom























Facilitated Conversations





The Useful Art Object: Considering Critical and Socially Engaged Craft Practices (2016), facilitated at Yale Union, Portland, OR

Considering Social Practice, Craft and Aesthetics (2015), facilitated at Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR

Social Craft Marathon Live! (2016) collaboration with the Socially Engaged Craft Collective for National Clay Week