Ahead of National Arts & Health Day on July 25, hear from Amanda Lovelee, an artist who works in civic systems as a translator between government and community, in conversation with Georgia Gempler, Program Manager for Health and Wellbeing at NLC.
Amanda creates bright, joyful, engaging and complex large-scale public art projects, partnering with arborists, planners, biologists, water resource managers and scientists.
Amanda is a US Cultural Policy Fellow at Stanford University and is part of CAIR Lab – the Cross-sector Artists-in-Residence Lab, a team that specializes in building partnerships between artists and government for creative solutions. She has served as an artist-in-residence in government at the local, regional and state levels.
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