Place is a reflection of self and community. As a digital and mixed media artist, I combine video, photography, other media and performance to explore shared relationships with land and culture at the intersections of art and science.
Over the last few decades, I’ve developed video projections for theater, designed collaborative music applications, and directed documentaries on land use and cultural preservation. In 2018 and 2019, I traveled to rural Latvia to develop work using video, drawing, and performance, to reveal layers of of my own ancestral history embedded in the buildings and pathways of an 800-year-old town that hosts, what was, the country’s first synagogue.
Based in the Sierra Foothills of CA, I develop site-specific experiences to build awareness of local watershed and forest habitats. I like bringing people together and see my work as an intentional collaboration with the region and community. I co-founded the arts collaborative, Myrtle Tree Arts in 2022 as a shared home for local artistic ideas and expressions.
-Ameera (Amee) Evans Godwin
Masters Degree, Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Bachelor of Arts, Media Study, Art and Performance, University of Buffalo Center for Media Study
RIPE AREA: The Art of Native Plants Festival
(forthcoming Sept 2025)
American River Conservancy & Myrtle Tree Arts
Wakamatsu Farm, Placerville, CA
RIPE AREA: Art & Nature Festival
Festival Event and Media Design/Production
American River Conservancy & Myrtle Tree Arts
June 10, 2023, Wakamatsu Farm, Placerville, CA
Wild & Scenic Art Exhibition and Film Festival
Digital prints from FIRE/LAND
Feb 2024, Lucchesi, Grass Valley, CA
Digital prints, SONIC FAULTLINES - Big Nature - Big Sound Festival, Green Room Social Club /Placerville Library, Nov-Dec 2023
FIRE/LAND: Knowing the Territory/Inspiring Community Resilience
Forum, Art Rock Opera and Media Design/Production
American River Conservancy & Myrtle Tree Arts
June 10, 2023, Wakamatsu Farm, Placerville, CA
Digital prints and video, a journey into local forests in the face of wildfires and climate risks.
Switchboard Gallery, Arts & Culture El Dorado
June 8 - Aug 6, 2023
Music, Media, and Real World Data
American River Conservancy & Myrtle Tree Arts,
April 23, 2022, Wakamatsu Farm, Placerville, CA
Music, Production in Commemoration of WWI
October 2018, Obras, Evora, Portugal
Collecting Karma from Small Neglects:
Three Meditations; Video Screening,
SERDE, Sept. 2018, Aizpute, Latvia
Interpretations of Commons Ground
Drawings/Mixed Media, Osceola Gallery,
April - June, 2018
PLAYA: A Center for the Intersection of Art and Science
Awarded Residency, Feb-Mar 2025
Summer Lake, OR
Parks CA Local Parks Grant Program 2024-2025
American River Conservancy
RIPE AREA: The Art of Native Plants Festival
California Arts Council Creative Corps Program Grant, 2023
Sacramento Office of Arts & Culture
American River Conservancy
RIPE AREA Project
Port Townsend, WA, Aug - Sept 2023
Latrobe Fund Grant, 2023
American River Conservancy
Support for FIRE/LAND Project
Artist Fellowship Award
2022 Gloria Burt Arts Fellowship
Sacramento Region Community Foundation
August 2019, Aizpute, Latvia
Foundation OBRAS - Portugal Artist Residency
Evoramonte, Portugal, Sept - Oct 2018
September 2018, Aizpute, Latvia
Arts Leader Fellowship
Arts Leadership for the Future, Silicon Valley
Film Festival Awards