Lisa Marie Evans leads the Artists Creative Fund and is the Director of Creative Development with CACHE where she designs and implements professional development programming, project support and grant-making for artists. Over the past 20+ years, Lisa Marie has mentored hundreds of multidisciplinary artists. Since 2020, she has overseen the distribution of $750K+ dollars to over 175 creatives. She is a co-founder and co-curator of “Collision: When Visions Combine,” an annual performance event at the Momentary.

Lisa Marie co-directed, edited and animated In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction. Since April of 2022, the film has reached audiences across Italy, Perú, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Poland, England, Argentina, Mexico, Australia, and the United States. In 2020, In Her Words was the first film to win the Publishing Triangle’s Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award. She is a 2021 recipient of the Arkansas Arts Council’s Fellowship Award in Cinematic Arts.