Nancy Evelyn Andrews
207-801-5721  |  nandrews@coa.edu  |  faculty website

Nancy Evelyn Andrews lives in Seal Harbor, Maine, where she makes films and performance pieces. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received a Master of Fine Arts in 1995, and her undergraduate studies were at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, BFA, 1983. Her work has been presented by the Museum of Modern Art (including two solo shows), Pacific Film Archive, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival, and Chicago Filmmakers, among others; and is in the film collections of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art. She has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Illinois State Arts Council, The Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art (supported by the Jerome Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts), and National Endowment for the Arts.

Her film and performance work explores questions like: What is our place in the universe? What do we really know? How do we try to grasp the past, or the future? How can humans interface with the natural world at this juncture in history? She works in a hybrid form combining storytelling, documentary, puppetry, vaudeville, and academia, perhaps as a metaphor for the complexities of these questions. Her characters and stories are synthesized from various sources, including historic diaries and accounts, biographies, women's history, journal articles, and then combined with autobiographical material.

Read a bit about Nancy Andrews' latest film, the powerful "On a Phantom Limb," called intimate, whimsical and uplifting in the Baltimore City Paper: http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=20136

Courses Taught

Documentary Video Studio
Animation
Intermediate Video: Studio and Strategies
Art of the Puppet
Four-Dimensional Studio
Animation II
Film Sound and Image