Amanda 陳 Beard Garcia, Likemind Design

Design Agency

Amanda 陳 Beard Garcia is a Chinese American muralist, illustrator, and brand designer based in Dracut, MA. Through portraiture and digital design, Amanda’s creative work reclaims and repaints her Chinese American identity by investigating the invisible history and heritage of her ancestors. She is co-founder and principal of Likemind Design, a creative studio with a mission to elevate the brands of independently-owned businesses “just like us,” as well as founder of Lucky Knot Arts, a collaborative community centering AANHPIs through pop-up arts programming on the North Shore of Massachusetts.

Media Gallery

**An interactive drawing installation and mural created as part of the 2022 Residence Lab exhibition at Tufts Community Common** Amanda Huang

**Co-designed and installed with students with support in part by a Mass Cultural Council STARS Residency grant and Beverly Cultural Council grant** Amanda Beard Garcia

**Created as part of Experience Chinatown, facilitated by Pao Arts Center** Amanda Beard Garcia

**Donated to Ayers Elementary School in Beverly, MA** Amanda Beard Garcia

**Ten hand-painted utility boxes as part of the Medford Cultural Council's “Revitalizing Medford’s Squares” 2020 initiative** David Sokol

**Created as a Visiting Artist for Montserrat College of Art** Amanda Beard Garcia

**Student mural in Lawrence, MA facilitated as an instructor for Essex Art Center** Amanda Beard Garcia

**Event organizer on behalf of Lucky Knot Arts** Brandi Ebersole

**Interactive mural as part of "Serpentine Celebrations: Mural & Gallery Exhibit" at Pao Arts Center** Amanda Beard Garcia

Disciplines

Primary discipline: Visual/Crafts - Painting
Additional disciplines: Design - General

Visual/Crafts - General

Media - Digital

Design - Graphic

Humanities - Cultural Heritage

Visual/Crafts - Illustration / Drawing

Visual/Crafts - Installation

Visual/Crafts - Painting

Multi-Disciplinary

Visual/Crafts - Calligraphy/Hand-Lettering

Activities & Services

Arts for Social Change / Creative Activism
Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
Design Services
Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
Residency - Community
Community Arts
Exhibitions
Art Sales
Consulting - Organizational Capacity