Community engagement and social justice
Literary arts, including poetry, creative writing, fiction, and non-fiction
2-D art, including murals, mosaic, photography, etc.
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
Nancy Andrews
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Audio / sound recording
Digital / photography
FAMILY: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian America, 1994. Series of 72 Silver Gelatin Prints, 57 at 16″ x 20″, 15 at 20″ x 24″
FAMILY: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian America, 1994. Series of 72 Silver Gelatin Prints, 57 at 16″ x 20″, 15 at 20″ x 24″
West Virginia Photo Corps, 2016. Digital photography. Community photo series to create new photo memories to replace those damaged in floods.
Mountain Valley Pipeline under construction in West Virginia, 2018. Digital photograph. Part of a series exploring Appalachia’s natural gas pipelines.
Charred trees and the remains of the new Leach Xpress which exploded in 2018. Digital photograph. Part of a series exploring Appalachia’s natural gas pipelines.
About the Artist
Nancy Andrews is an experienced storyteller, documentarian and artist who moves easily between photography, video, text and mixed media materials. In 2023 the National Gallery of Art acquired a 72-image collection of Andrews’ photographs, “Family: A Portrait of Gay & Lesbian America.”
For Andrews, the act of bearing witness to others and the world around us is a calling. The resulting artwork can be documentary or interpretive. She believes that at its most eloquent, the artwork catches attention, provokes questions, and leads to greater awareness and understanding of our fellow humans and the world around us. In short, art is communication and it can change the world.
Andrews works from a foundation in journalism, with her early career spent as a staff member at The Washington Post and the Detroit Free Press. She’s been recognized as photographer of the year by the White House News Photographers Association and University of Missouri’s and National Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year International. She’s also earned three Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and two Edward R. Murrow Awards. She is the author of two books, “Family: A Portrait of Gay & Lesbian America,” (1994) and “Partial View: An Alzheimer’s Journey,” (1998).
Her local exhibitions include a solo exhibition of work at West Virginia University’s Media Innovation Center (100 Days, 100 Voices, 2017) and group shows at Jewish Community Center (Each and Every, 2018) and SPACE Gallery (Behind Our Scenes, 2013).
A native of Virginia, Andrews now calls Pittsburgh home.
Photo by Annie O’Neill
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Accreditations, Certifications, and/or Awards
- National Gallery of Art acquisition of a collection of 72 photographs
from project, “FAMILY: A Portrait of Gay & Lesbian America”
Announced January 2023. https://www.nga.gov/press/acquisitions/2023/nancy-andrews.html - “Each and Every” exhibition and book funded by The Benter
Foundation, Pittsburgh, 2018 - Visiting Professor for Media Innovation, West Virginia University, 2015-2017
- Student Project: West Virginia University. Here, students used a new
device from the company Matterport to create three dimensional
portraits of students in their living spaces. I created the partnership
with the company, and worked with students. - Team Leader/Editor/Board Member, The Eddie Adams Workshop in Jeffersonville, NY, 2000-2017
- West Virginia Photo Corps, a 2016 project where we went into
communities ravaged by floods and made new family portraits and
gave them to the people. https://www.wvphotocorps.com/ - Group Exhibition, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, “Behind Our Scenes,” 2014
- White House News Photographer Association Photographer of the
Year, 1999 - University of Missouri and National Press Photographers Association, Photographer of the Year, 1997
- Partial View: An Alzheimer’s Journey, a book that was a collaboration
with a person with Alzheimer’s Disease and their family. Published
1998 by Southern Methodist University Press and exhibited at the
Newseum, Arlington, Va.
Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
No
Teaching Artist
Yes, high school through adult
Joined the Directory
April 2023
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“Collaboration is listening and taking action. By working with others, the view is expanded and more people interact with the work.”
Nancy Andrews
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Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
