b. 1989, The Bronx, New York (unceded Wappinger Munsee Lenape land)
CREATOR: Live Painter, Facilitator & Cultural Worker.
Amanda Everich (she/they) is a seed of African and Ukrainian diasporas based in The Bronx, New York, unceded Wappinger Munsee Lenape land. She explores individual and collective liberation through improvisational art, storytelling, decolonial mapmaking and connecting with the ancestral wisdom of the land. Her improvised paintings are energized by exploring legacies of Black culture, re-membering connections to the land and inviting participants into future worldbuilding and healing through creativity. With no formal art training, Amanda’s work uplifts how we are all creative beings.
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 recent graduate of Farm School NYC.