Alicia Evans is an award-winning fiber artist, storyteller, and reflective facilitator whose work explores compassion, resilience, and the healing power of creative expression. With a background in communications and education, including serving as a professor at City College of New York, she now focuses her work at the intersection of art, caregiving, and contemplative practice.
Alicia is widely known for her crocheted fiber art trees—meditative works that invite reflection on resilience, restoration, and our interconnected relationship with the natural world. Her work has been supported through multiple New York State arts grant and featured in exhibitions including her “Healing Forest of Trees” installation. Her creative practice and advocacy are also the subject of the award-winning documentary “Threads of Nature: The Art and Advocacy of Alicia Evans”, which highlights how art can serve as a vehicle for healing, reflection, and environmental stewardship.
In addition to her artistic practice, Alicia serves as a professional actor and empathy facilitator who helps train physicians across the United States in compassionate communication through VitalTalk. Through immersive role-play and reflective dialogue, she supports clinicians in developing deeper listening skills, emotional presence, and empathy in difficult conversations with patients and families. This work has deepened her commitment to practices that sustain resilience and compassionate presence among helping professionals. Alicia also serves on the advisory board for the geriatric emergency care program at NYU Langone Health, contributing perspective on caregiver experiences and the importance of compassionate communication within healthcare systems.
Her storytelling work also supports caregiving communities. Alicia is the author of “On the Lighter Side: A Dementia Caregiver’s Journey to Discovering Light Within the Dark”, a collection of reflections highlighting unexpected moments of meaning, connection, and humor within the caregiving journey.
She has also developed “Capturing Sacred Moments”, a reflective storytelling practice and workshop that invites caregivers to pause, notice, and preserve meaningful moments that arise even amid the challenges of caregiving. Through simple reflective exercises such as journaling, storytelling, and mindful observation, participants learn to recognize small experiences of connection, compassion, and humanity that sustain resilience and hope.
Across her work, Alicia creates experiences that invite people to slow down, reflect, and reconnect—with themselves, with one another, and with the larger web of life. She is deeply committed to cultivating compassionate communities where shared reflection and creative expression help sustain those dedicated to helping others.
