Amanda Leigh Evans (b. 1989) is an artist, educator, and cultivator seeking a deeper understanding of our social and ecological interdependence. She makes clay objects, gardens, books, websites, videos and sculptures, and participates in collaborative systems. From 2016 to 2021, Evans lived and worked as an artist-in-residence in a 120-unit affordable housing apartment complex in East Portland, OR. There, in collaboration with her neighbors, she founded and cultivated The Living School of Art, an intergenerational art collective and alternative art school. Since 2014, she has been a core artist at the King School Museum of Contemporary Art, a social practice project and a contemporary art museum run by students at a public elementary school in NE Portland, OR. Currently, Evans and her collaborator Tia Kramer are artists-in-residence at Prescott School, a Pre K - 12th grade public school in rural Prescott, WA. This unusual rural school partnership focuses on building a large, social practice public artwork developed in collaboration with students, faculty, staff and families as part of the Rural Arts Initiative sponsored by Carnegie Picture Lab.

Evans holds an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University and a Post Bac in Ceramics from Cal State Long Beach. She has presented work and publications at MOCA, the Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Craft, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. She is the recipient of Artplace America, the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Art Prize, the Metro Creative Placemaking Grant, and the Precipice Fund, among others.