Selected Shows and Projects
EXHIBITIONS
(* indicated solo)
2025
Pullen Arts Center, Raleigh, NC (forthcoming)
Zepster Gallery, NYC (forthcoming)
2024
Sawtooth Spotlight, Sawtooth School for Visual Art, Winston-Salem, NC (forthcoming)
Hodges Taylor, Charlotte, NC (Curator: Andrew Leventis; forthcoming)
Generations: 60 Years/21 Conversations, Rowe Gallery, UNC - Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
Edgewood Cottage: Artists in Residence Program with Blue Ridge FIber Guild, Blowing Rock,
NC
string theory, Hodges Taylor, Charlotte (Curator: Jamila Brown)
ART CRUSH, Winston-Salem, NC (Curator: Emily Oritz Badalamente)
Blue Ridge Fiber Guild Members’ Show, Jones House Cultural Center, Boone, NC
Every Fiber, Bells Gallery, Dothan, AL
PROJECTS
2024, Collecting Pile: REASSEMBLE // Winston-Salem, Arts District of Winston-Salem & Delta Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC
2019, Bridging, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC [Supported by Central Piedmont Community College]
2015-Present, Friendge (ongoing)
WORKSHOPS
Reworking Textiles For Function and Concept
WHERE: Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
WHEN: November 6 - 9, 2025
Open to All Skill Levels
OVERVIEW:
This beginner-friendly workshop is an introduction to transforming preowned textiles into something new. Focused on creative reuse, participants will learn rag rug-making techniques to repurpose materials like sentimental garments, old clothes, textile home goods, and fabric scraps. Students may work conceptually or focus on making functional rag rugs, exploring multiple methods including crochet, knotless netting, no-sew braiding, and hand and machine sewing. Students will create samples and leave with either a small completed project or the skills to finish a larger in-progress piece. Students are encouraged to bring textiles to use and also participate in a materials swap. All skill levels are welcome.
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