Amanda Lovelee

Amanda Lovelee civic and environmentally-focused artist who works within government and cross-sector collaborations. She creates bright, joyful, engaging, and complex large-scale public
art projects, partnering with arborists, planners, biologists, water resource managers, and scientists. Her practice is public and my projects sit at the intersection of science, connection, and system change. She uses empathy as a tool to shift conversations that invite people into dreaming about shared futures with the city, nature, and each other.

Lovelee makes the invisible visible – translating large government and science ideas, gathering communities’ stories, reimaging data into spaces and tools for connection. She strives to make the words joy, love and art common in policy change. As an artist, her role ranges from maker to scientist to anthropologist, weaving data and stories to create experiences that explore the fragility of human connections. Each project strives to build relationships between people while documenting a temporal and utopic social structure where genuine kinship thrives. While diverse in form, all of her work constructs moments that bring strangers together.

Lovelee holds an MFA in Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and BFA in Photography from University of Hartford. Lovelee has received funding from ArtPlace America, Jerome Foundation, Knight Foundation, McKnight Foundation, MN State Arts Board, Salzburg Global Seminar and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently a 2022/23 McKnight Visual Artist Fellow and Design for Civic Change Fellow at the Center for Urban Pedagogy.

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