Amy Stelly
Claiborne Avenue Alliance Design Studio

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Amy Stelly is an artist, designer and planner. She is a native of New Orleans and a proud resident of the Treme-Lafitte neighborhood. Her body of work includes architectural and urban design, along with abstract painting, drawing, mask-making, photography, mixed-media and three-dimensional construction. She has studied and worked with acclaimed masters, including the late Charles More, Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Doug Farr. Amy rose to prominence as a freeway fighter when President Biden cited the Claiborne Expressway as an example of infrastructure that has divided and harmed the city’s Treme and 7th Ward communities.
Amy is a co-founder of the Claiborne Avenue Alliance, a coalition of residents, business owners and professionals dedicated to the restoration of the Claiborne Corridor. She is the founder and executive director of the Claiborne Avenue Alliance Design Studio, a nonprofit design studio that was born out of the advocacy work of the Alliance. The studio, founded in 2022, is a community-based architectural and urban design firm that is committed to providing access to the languages of design and land use for all.
The firm’s scope of work includes building and open space design, historic restoration, downtown and neighborhood revitalization, comprehensive and environmental planning, zoning, the development of incentives, site planning, streetscapes and gardens.
Amy has written about land use and zoning; the value of community engagement; and public accountability. And she is a contributor to the recently published Justice and the Interstates and Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana. Her writings have also been published in the Washington Post, Common Edge and The Lens. She is an avid swimmer and advocate for water safety and environmental stewardship. 

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