Alumni

 

Amy Evans

MA, 2003

 

 

 

Amy Evans came to the Center with a degree in fine art and passion for Southern culture. As part of her graduate work, she cofounded PieceWorks, an arts and community outreach organization serving the Deep South. Today, Amy continues to exhibit her own work and spends as much time as she can working in a small studio on the fourteen-acre homestead she shares with her husband, Kurt Streeter. When Amy isn't making paintings, she can be found traveling the South as the oral historian for the Southern Foodways Alliance. Amy has stood in pig lots in Cajun country, behind bars in Louisville (cocktail bars, that is), and on oyster skiffs in the Apalachicola Bay to collect the stories behind the food. She appreciates a good meringue and can never eat too many oysters.