Amanda Williams

Amanda Williams (B.Arch. '97) is a visual artist who trained as an architect at AAP. Williams's practice blurs the distinction between art and architecture. She is best known for her series, Color(ed) Theory, in which she painted the exterior of soon-to-be-demolished houses on the south side of Chicago using a culturally charged color palette to mark the pervasiveness of vacancy and blight in black urban communities. Williams is an Efroymson Family Contemporary Arts Fellow, a 3Arts awardee, recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Arts Foundation Design/Build commission in collaboration with Andres L. Hernandez (B.Arch. '97), part of the ensemble selected to represent the U.S. in the upcoming 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture, a member of the multidisciplinary exhibition design team for the Obama Presidential Center, and a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. She has current exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Arts Club of Chicago, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Williams recently served as a visiting assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis and is a visiting critic at AAP for the spring 2018 semester.

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Classes (Selected)

• ARCH 4101/4102/5101/5116/8913 Option StudioAdvanced programs in architectural design, with options in, but not limited to, urban design, architectural technology, computational design, ecology, culture, and representation.