WNC Craft Futures Cohort
2025
Andrea Vail is an interdisciplinary artist based in Western North Carolina who explores textiles’ inherent collaborative nature in an increasingly disconnected world. She weaves tapestries and creates knotless netted, tied, and crocheted sculptures with discarded materials, often inviting community participation throughout the process.
Vail holds a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and an MFA in Craft and Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has exhibited and presented her work at institutions including Form & Concept in Santa Fe, Praxis Fiber Workshop in Cleveland, McColl Center in Charlotte, Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago, East Tennessee State University, Marshall University, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Berea College, The University of Akron, University of Dayton, North Central College, Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC, CAM Raleigh, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Mint Museum, and the Toricho Art Festival in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa, Japan.
Her work has been supported by awards from Watauga Arts Council, Arts and Science Council, North Carolina Arts Council, CultureWORKS, and residencies with Goodyear Arts, McColl Center, and Elsewhere Museum.
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