b. 1989, The Bronx, New York (unceded Wappinger Munsee Lenape land)
CREATOR: Painting, drawing & workshops
Amanda Everich (she/they) is a seed of African and Ukrainian diasporas from The Bronx, New York, unceded Wappinger Munsee Lenape land. She explores individual and collective liberation through visual art, storytelling and decolonial mapmaking. Connecting with the ancestral wisdom of the land, her paintings and drawings are energized by exploring legacies of improvisation in Black culture, creativity as a source of healing and inviting others into worldbuilding. With no formal art training, Amanda’s work uplifts how we are all creative beings mapping out our journeys by making them.
Recent live painting includes collaborations with jazz musicians, poets, The Point CDC and Voices in Power. Recent collaborations include You Are The Map Workshop at The Point CDC, a feature in The Laundromat Project Radical Mapmaking Resource Guide, as a contributing artist for her workshop collaboration with La Mala Yerba in Life as Ceremony Volume 8, and as editor for Roots Wounds Words “Remembering Water: A Contemporary Anthology of Creative Nonfiction by Storytellers of Color”.
Her work has been supported by The Laundromat Project Create Change Fellowship and Creative Action Fund, Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative and North Star Fund.
Her educational background includes an English Literature Bachelor's Degree from The City College of New York, teacher training at the Loris Malaguzzi International Centre in Reggio Emilia, Italy, land stewardship training as part of the Rock Steady Farm Pollinator Program with a feature in their 2023 documentary Pollinate! and she is a graduate of Farm School NYC.