Amanda Williams: 2023 Landmarks Illinois Influencer

ARTIST, ARCHITECT
Amanda Williams, an artist who trained as an architect, uses historic buildings as a backdrop for her thought-provoking, large-scale art installations that focus on the complex role race has on how we value places. Her work imaginatively activates the possibility of vacant landscapes while also calling attention to the erasure of culture and community due to systemic racism and underinvestment, particularly in Chicago’s Black neighborhoods.