Lucy Bowman (she/her) is a dancer, graphic designer, and artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Originally from Northern Virginia, she moved to Minneapolis in 2021 to pursue a BA in Dance from the University of Minnesota alongside a BFA in Graphic Design. With a diverse background in Modern/contemporary dance, Lucy has performed with notable artists such as Cynthia Oliver, Carlo Antonio Villanueva, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, and jess pretty. 

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Her current passions are at the crossroads of historical art and design and ecology and conservation. She is interested in how visual design, embodied performance, and environmental awareness can create meaningful connections through the intersections of dance and design in the digital age.

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Lucy is particularly inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement of the early 20th century—its emphasis on craftsmanship, community, and the integration of art into everyday life. The celebration of handcrafted detail, resistance to industrial uniformity, and the insistence that everyday objects and interactions can—and should—be beautiful. With an insistence that art holds an inherent value beyond function or profit, these principles resonate with her belief that the arts should be accessible, purposeful, and rooted in care.  

 

She sees strong parallels in the broader arts world, especially in dance, where process, collaboration, and embodied storytelling have a unique ability to push against commodification and disconnection (think fashion, social media, the printed page, product packaging, the grocery store display....) Design and movement are tools that inform each other in creating spaces of meaning, resistance, and restoration.

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Deeply inspired by place, she holds a special fondness for the Oregon coast, New York City, Copenhagen, Berlin, and the Blue Ridge Mountains of her home state. Ultimately, she envisions a career that throws her headfirst across the globe into the unknown.