About Me

Place is a reflection of self and community. As a digital media artist, I combine video, photography, music, and mixed media to explore relationships to land, culture, history, and responsibility. Using meditative and documentary approaches to explore the intersection of art and science. I gather and combine images, maps, objects, and data to inspire and guide my trajectory.

Making immersive experiences, 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 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 El Dorado County, CA, I’m developing digital images and site-specific experiences mixing memory and awareness of watershed and forest habitats. I see my work as an intentional collaboration with the region and community, co-founding Myrtle Tree Arts in 2022 as a shared home for local artistic ideas and expressions.

-Ameera (Amee) Evans Godwin

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Education

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

Exhibitions

Awards/Residencies

Wild & Scenic Art Exhibition and Film Festival

Digital prints selected from FIRE/LAND

Lucchesi Mill St Tasting Room, Grass Valley, CA

Feb 5 - Feb 27th

Reception, Feb.15th, Center for the Arts, Grass Valley

FAULTLINES

Digital prints as part of SONIC FAULTLINES - Big Nature - Big Sound Festival, Green Room Social Club, Nov 18-Dec 15 and Placerville Library, Nov 8-30, 2023

FIRE/LAND: The Exhibition

Digital prints and video, representing a journey into forests in the face of wildfires and climate risks.

Switchboard Gallery, Arts & Culture El Dorado

June 8 - Aug 6, 2023

Earth Dayta: Harbingers

Music, Media, and Real World Data

American River Conservancy & Myrtle Tree Arts,

April 23, 2022, Wakamatsu Farm, Placerville, CA

I am the Size of What I See

Theatrical Music Production in Commemoration of WWI

October 2018, Obras, Evora, Portugal

Collecting Karma from Small Neglects: