Amanda Leigh Evans 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. Half of DeepTime Collective, Evans’ work oscillates between self-contained bodies of work for contemporary art spaces and multi-year, site- specific collaborative projects with community partners. 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 an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.