Lisa Marie Evans Email & Phone Number

Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange elevates Northwest Arkansas as a leading region of arts, culture, and creativity — an inclusive, inspiring and equitable ecosystem of diverse artists, businesses, nonprofits, and communities.

Project Manager, Editor & Animator for OZCast, an online creative variety show featuring local, regional and national artists, places and cultures. OZCast is a project of CACHE (Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange), in partnership with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Momentary, OZ Art and the many wonderful grassroots artists, organizations and creative industries across Northwest Arkansas.

Narrated by LGBTQ+ historian Lillian Faderman and illuminated through interviews with trailblazers like Jewelle Gomez (The Gilda Stories), Dorothy Allison (Bastard Out of Carolina), and Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet), In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction charts a literary journey from post-war lesbian pulp to modern bestsellers. Highlighting the successful and controversial, directors Lisa Marie Evans and Marianne K. Martin skillfully delve into stories that defined eras of lesbian writers, and the changing socio-political landscapes that encouraged an evolution of the genre. In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction pays loving tribute to this evolution of lesbian and queer fiction, told through a lens of broader American history.Starting in 1928, readers fell into The Well of Loneliness — a groundbreaking lesbian novel, albeit a tragic one. By the late 1990s, lesbian fiction had climbed out of the well and into a diverse world of stories and storytellers who were publishing increasingly multifaceted stories (some of them even happy ones). This film will inspire lit lovers of any age to return to old favorites, while igniting curiosity for a new literary tryst or two. -Description credit, Frameline 47

Facilitated and administered professional development programs for artists throughout the Midwest, including Houston, Tulsa, Kansas City and Northwest Arkansas.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Beyond Belief: Three Stories of Faith in Action is a digital storytelling project in partnership with the Association of Independents in Radio and Kansas City PBS. The half-hour film presents three stories showing how community bringspeople together. Explore how students from two very different high schools journey south together on the Civil Rights trail; a congregation in Brookside welcomes a growing group of refugees from Democratic Republic of Congo and other African nations; and a Grandview church holds Sunday services in English and Spanish.

Adjunct Professor for Introduction to Film & Video Methods, a course introducing the development of writing, shooting and editing to acquire basic skills in digital video, super 8 film, sound production and image editing.

Led an Introduction to the World of Digital Possibilities through video production.

Organized logistics from hiring crew, renting equipment and scheduling work between departments.

Developed curriculum and led youth in creative expression through video making to explore personal reflection and community issues.

Produced curriculum and facilitated K-12 youth in envisioning, planning, implementing and evaluating community projects in partnership with Kansas City school districts and organizations.

Counseled youth in Anytown and Unitown Youth Leadership Institutes to become effective leaders and change agents dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry, racism, heterosexism and other isms.

Constructed and led seminars educating youth in activism, filmmaking and LGBT education for this international education program connecting youth with Nobel Peace Prize laureates.