Nancy Evelyn Andrews

Course Areas

video, animation, performance

Personal Websites

http://www.nancyandrews.net/
http://artandscienceofdelirium.wordpress.com/

• MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995
• BFA, Maryland Institute, College of Art, 1983

Nancy Evelyn Andrews lives on the coast of Maine, where she makes films, drawings, props and objects. She works in hybrid filmic forms combining storytelling, documentary, puppetry, and research. Her characters and narratives are synthesized from various sources, including history, movies, popular educational materials and autobiography. 

Publications

Her work has been presented by the Museum of Modern Art, Pacific Film Archive, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Jerusalem Film Festival, Flaherty Seminar, Nova Cinema Bioscoop, Brussels, Belgium, and Taiwan International Animation Festival, among others; and is in the film collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and six of her films are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

She has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, LEF New England Moving Image Fund, 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.

Exhibitions and Performances

http://www.gf.org/fellows/357-nancy-evelyn-andrews
http://supanickblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/nancy-andrewss-on-phantom-limb.html
http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2010/04/transmodern-festival-2010-transmodern-films/
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/on-a-phantom-limb-new-films-by-nancy-andrews/Film?oid=3583906
http://larecord.com/interviews/2011/03/07/nancy-andrews-life-without-mystery-is-boring