Lauren Frances Evans is an artist, educator, and advocate whose practice explores embodiment, transformation, and interconnection through sculpture, installation, video and mixed media. Her work, shaped by her maternal experience, neurodivergent identity, and inherent mysticism, probes the liminal spaces between holding and release, presence and absence, self and other.

She is an Associate Professor of Art and Gallery Director at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Evans holds an MFA from the University of Maryland and a BA from the College of Charleston. Her work has been supported by residencies at Franconia Sculpture Park, Elsewhere Living Museum, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Stay Home Gallery. In 2024, she participated in The Nature of Difference, an international residency in Mussoorie, India, hosted by Art for Change.

Evans collaborates with Studio By the Tracks, a nonprofit supporting adult artists on the autism spectrum, where she served as the 2024 Artist-in-Residence. She is also a board member of the Alabama Visual Arts Network, dedicated to strengthening the regional arts community.

Alongside her studio practice, Evans and her husband operate Begin Again Goods, a small business that creates handcrafted items inspired by their shared creative vision. Together, they navigate the joys and complexities of family life with their two daughters, Agnes and Edie.