Andrea Vail creates collaborative exchange through an investigation of contemporary American society and its objects.  She earned an MFA from the Craft/Material Studies Program at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a BFA in Visual Arts from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2003).

Her recent projects include Woven Community, a citywide event supported by Culture Works Arts and Cultural District Grant Program in Richmond, VA; Gathering Clouds: A Quilting Bee with Andrea Vail at the VCU Anderson Gallery; Two Plus One: A 5 Hour Creative Interaction (co-organized with Rachel Emily Simpson) at McColl Center for Art + Innovation; and ONE HUNDRED CIRCLES with Elizabeth Traditional Elementary School; and Creating: Conversation & Community at the forthcoming Surface Design Association 2015 Conference – Made/Aware: Socially Engaged Practices.