Selected Shows and Projects
EXHIBITIONS
(* indicated solo)
2025
*Harley Gallery, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC (forthcoming)
Found and Formed, Pullen Arts Center, Raleigh, NC (forthcoming)
WNC Craft Futures: From Here, Bresler Family Gallery, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC
2025 International Fiber Festival, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Seoul, Korea
*grandma’s family tree was a wall of photos, Moskowitz Gallery, Turchin Center for Visual Art, Boone, NC
Late Checkout, Zepster Gallery, Brooklyn, NC (Curator: Marlee Katz and Devon Gordon)
2024
Sawtooth Spotlight, Sawtooth School for Visual Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Hodges Taylor, Charlotte, NC (Curator: Andrew Leventis)
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
Knotless Netting with all things linear and malleable
WHEN: September 20, 2025
WHERE: Western Watauga Community Center
OVERVIEW:
Learn basic knotless netting in this presentation and demo. Andrea will share its history, materials, and her work in community and studio spaces.
Offered to Blue Ridge Fiber Guild Members; Open All Skill Levels.
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Reworking Textiles For Function and Concept
WHERE: Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
WHEN: November 6 - 9, 2025
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.
Open to All Skill Levels
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Building Form with a Single Strand with Andrea Vail
WHERE: Virtual
WHEN: October 11 - 18, 2025
OVERVIEW:
Looping, knotless netting, and crochet are versatile and forgiving textile techniques, allowing for innovative material combinations and transitions. This workshop offers an overview of single-strand construction methods, guiding participants in transforming found objects into fiber-based sculptures. Participants will explore familiar techniques to merge materials, navigate transitions, troubleshoot challenges, and develop a narrative within their work.
Open to all skill levels, though basic knowledge of crochet or knot-tying may be helpful.
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