COA professor Nancy Andrews is the 2021 Ellis-Beauregard Fellow in the Visual Arts.COA professor Nancy Andrews is the 2021 Ellis-Beauregard Fellow in the Visual Arts.

Andrews, who chairs the studio arts program at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, has received this year’s $25,000 Ellis-Beauregard Fellowship in the Visual Arts. Andrews makes films, drawings, music, and objects, and has received numerous grants and fellowships during a 40-year career in the arts.

“My films, drawings, sculptures and audio work has often been inspired by trauma and isolation, mixed with humor. These are themes that are probably resonating with folks these days,” she wrote. “The fellowship provides the support, plus the means to get the work seen, which is so key. I want to encourage other artists to keep applying for grants and fellowships even if you get turned down, sometimes it takes many tries, and I feel incredibly fortunate to receive this wonderful fellowship.”

The jurors said Andrews’ deep and diverse practice made an impression. “Her personal yet kaleidoscopic practice, across many media, centers narratives of trauma and discovery while inventing countless new possibilities for looking at the world,” Alteveer said. Tani added, “She probes the factual and fictional boundaries of the human and the animal realms with an elevated acumen for editing and animation style.”

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