Selected Shows and Projects

EXHIBITIONS 

(* indicated solo)

2024

Generations: 60 Years/21 Conversations, UNC - Charlotte, Charlotte, NC (forthcoming)

Every Fiber, The Bells Gallery, Dothan, Al

2023

Secondhand New, UNC - Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 

2022

NC weavers in conjunction with Diedrick Brackens: ark of bulrushes, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC 

Sugar Coating (5-person with Renee Cloud, Douglas Degges, Hale Ekinci, HNin Nie), Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL

Embedded, (three-person with Bryana Bibbs and Sam Dienst), Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland, OH 

2021 

Toricho Art Festival, Fujisawa City, Kanagawa, Japan

It Takes a Village, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC

BIG BODY PLAY, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville, Fine Arts Center in Greenville, SC

PROJECTS

2019   Bridging, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC [Supported by Central Piedmont Community College]

2015-Present, Friendge (ongoing)

CONTACT

AndreaEVail[at]gmail.com

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BIO

Andrea Vail investigates contemporary American society and its objects -- specifically home goods deemed stylistically obsolete, or unattractive by the standards of 21st century mainstream culture to create sculpture and collaborative exchange. Her research explores trends of mass-production, habits of consumption and systems of artifice and authenticity.

EDUCATION

Nonprofit Administration Graduate Certificate, 2023, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

M.F.A., Craft/Material Studies, 2014,  Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

B.F.A., Visual Art - Fibers, UNC Charlotte, 2003, Charlotte, NC





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