Andrea Avery pilfered Elsewhere's textile scrap bins to create a writhing garden of fabric flowers. Blooming on the museum's rear wall the fabric flowers invite Elsewhere's alley garden inside and museum visitors outside.
Andrea Avery is a visual artist living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Avery received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking, as well as her Bachelor of Science in Art Education degree, from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Avery completed her Master of Arts degree through the Peck School of the Arts, as well as receiving a Museum Studies Certification through Anthropology, in 2011 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). She received the Anderson Ranch Presidential Scholarship Award (2009), UW-Milwaukee Anderson Ranch Scholarship (2009), and the Layton Travel Grant (2009). Her active exhibition record includes shows in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Scotland, England, South Korea and Thailand. Avery just completed her Master of Fine Arts degree (2012) at the Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is currently the gallery manager and curator at UWM’s Union Art Gallery and the Community Arts Coordinator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.
