During their residency, DeepTime Collective facilitated a series of workshops with third grade students and PSU students that explored familiar and alternative ways of timekeeping, drew abstract shapes to illustrate time, and turned those drawings into movements for a performance. In the workshops, the artists covered the clocks in the classroom and did exercises to get students thinking about how we measure time and physically feel minutes, hours, days, and years.

DeepTime Collective is a collaboration between artists Amanda Leigh Evans and Tia Kramer that unearths how we understand ourselves within the interdependent constructs of time, place, community, and landscape. Their work has been synergistically developed in partnership with artists, performers, geologists, young people, mathematicians, writers, farmers, software architects, mothers, immigrants, and educators. The concept of deep time refers to many methods of perceiving or embodying time, including geologic time, the unusual freedom within unawareness of time, and visualizing one’s place within the lineage of ancestors and descendants. They are interested in how the elastic threads of time connect us with ancient, present, and future ways of being. They seek moments of exchange that alter our knowing of time, place, and each other.

Tia is an interdisciplinary artist who creates collective experiences and performances that are rooted in public art, creative pedagogy, oral history, dance, and social action to disrupt everyday life and encourage radical imagination. She attended Macalester College and has a Post Baccalaureate in Fiber + Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA in Art + Social Practice from PSU. She is the co-founder and director of The Listeners Project: Queremos Escucharte, consultant for Youth Thriving Through Learning Fund, and Research Associate in Whitman College’s Art Department.

Amanda is an artist, educator, and cultivator seeking social and ecological interdependence and was a core collaborator at KSMoCA from 2014–2022. She holds an MFA in Art + Social Practice from PSU and a Post-Bacc in Ceramics from Cal State Long Beach. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Since forming DeepTime Collective in 2021, they have developed many projects. Fifty Clocks Made to Strike Together, is a large-scale installation and performance involving synchronized mechanical clocks as part of the 2026 Oregon Contemporary Artists’ Biennial. When The River Becomes a Cloud, is an ongoing collaborative public artwork generated through their artist residency at Prescott School (PreK–12).

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