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EDUCATION
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Master of Fine Arts, 1995
The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1983
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES
LEF New England Moving Image Fund, 2004
Maine Arts Commission, Artist Fellowship, 2002
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, 1999
Roger Brown Residency, 1998
Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998
Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, supported by the Jerome
Foundation and NY State Council on the Arts, 1997-98
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, 1996
James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, 1995
Franklin Furnace Fund, 1995
Maryland State Arts Council, 1991
National Endowment for the Arts InterArts, 1990
Art Matters, Inc., 1990
Yellow Springs Residency, 1990
Mayors Advisory Committee on Art and Culture, Baltimore, 1988 – 1989
National Endowment for the Arts Regional Grant, 1988
COLLECTIONS
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France photographs
The School of the Art Institute, Flaxman Film Collection – Woods Marm – 16mm print
The Museum of Modern Art – Hedwig Page, Seaside Librarian – 16mm print
HONORS and AWARDS
Marvin Felheim Award Special Jury Prize , Ann Arbor Festival , 2004
Juror, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2003
Rockefeller Film and Video Fellowship Nominee, 2002, 2004, 2005
One-person, evening length shows at The Museum of Modern Art in 2000 and 2003
Screening Committees Choice Award for Narrative Integrity , Ann Arbor Festival, 2001
Marvin Felheim Award Special Jury Prize , Ann Arbor Festival , 2001
Black Maria Film and Video Festival and Tour, First Place (Jurors Choice), 2000
FILMOGRAPHY, DESCRIPTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
The Dreamless Sleep(16mm film, B&W, 30 minutes, 2004, written, directed, cinematography, editing, puppets and animation by Nancy Andrews)
This is a sequel to Monkeys and Lumps . The Dreamless Sleep, the second in an intended trilogy, is a hybrid of drawn animation, live-action and puppetry. The Dreamless Sleep includes brief biographies of historic figures, like Else Bosselman, who drew underwater creatures as described by William Beebe from the windows of the bathysphere; and Christine the Astonishing, a medieval woman mystic. The film is based on a series of interviews with Ima Plume.
Selected Exhibitions:
Museum of Modern Art, New York 2004
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago 2004
Maine International Film Festival, Waterville, Maine, 2004
Pacific Film Archive
Monkeys and Lumps (16mm film, B&W, , 38 minutes, 2003, written, directed, cinematography, editing, puppets and animation by Nancy Andrews)
This film is a hybrid of drawn animation, live action and puppetry. The central theme is the unknown or the “other” and our efforts as individual humans to understand our place and relationship with the unknowable. There are several subjects woven into the film. These are: facial expressions of human and non-human primates; space training and missions of chimpanzees; human study of monkeys (symbolized by the image of Jane Goodall); interactions between humans and animals (taken from news reports); lumps-- organisms that wash up on beaches that fit no known life forms (also called globsters); and, extra-terrestrials.
The film’s character, Ima Plume (pronounce EE-MA PLOOM), is a chalk-talk specialist or public illustrator who draws before small audiences. Her chalk talks are represented in the hand drawn animation segments. (Marvin Felheim Award Special Jury Prize , Ann Arbor Festival , 2004)
Selected Exhibitions:
Museum of Modern Art, New York 2004
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago 2004
Museum of Modern Art, NY , 2003
Pacific Film Archive
Women in the Director’s Chair Festival, Chicago 2003
MADCAT 7th annual International Women’s Film Festival, Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco, and MADCAT Touring Program to various U.S. venues
Ann Arbor Film Festival, March 2004, Michigan
14 Karat Cabaret, Baltimore December, 2003
Maine International Film Festival, Waterville, Maine, July 2003
The Reach of An Arm (16mm film, B&W, puppet animation with live sound, 30 minutes, 2000, written, directed, cinematography, editing, puppets and animation by Nancy Andrews)
Peculiarity and Frank Goodin, portrayed by puppets, seek their fortune as many did during the westward movement of the 1800’s. Peculiarity has seen the promise of a better life, "The trouble with you, Frank, is that you shot half your brain off. This is your chance to get rich." And, so they set out in their homemade wagon. This film is presented with live soundtrack of music, song and sound effects, employing soundtrack technologies of the early 1900’s.
Selected Exhibitions:
Museum of Modern Art, NY , 2003
MADCAT 6th annual International Women’s Film Festival, El Rio Theater, San Francisco, CA, and Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA September 2002
University of Maine at Farmington, Art Gallery, September-October 2002
Maine International Film Festival, Waterville, Maine, July, 2002
College of the Atlantic, Maine, Spring, 2001
University of Iowa, December, 2001
Outer Ear Festival, Loyola University, Chicago, November, 2000
The Lost Colony, an Early American Mysterie (16mm film, color, with live sound, 30 minutes, 1999, written, directed, cinematography, editing, and puppets by Nancy Andrews)
The Lost Colony tells the tale of an ill-fated fictional early American settlement. The 16mm film will be projected along with a live sound score including chorus, narration and sound effects. Puppets portray settlers and natives in a piece that weaves historic pilgrim diary entries, with the unfolding fictionalized story of the colonists' arrival and ensuing years. In form, the piece references early cinema and vaudeville, with the soundtrack performed on stage by the choral ensemble and narrators. Voice, Narration and Sound Effects: Nancy Andrews, Dru Colbert, Steve Reber and Chris Sullivan
Selected Exhibitions:
Cinema Borealis, Chicago, 1999
Hedwig Page, Seaside Librarian (16mm film, B&W, puppet animation with live sound, 35 minutes, 1998, written, directed, cinematography, editing, puppets and animation by Nancy Andrews)
Hedwig Page was born with an uncanny knowledge of cataloguing. She could recite Dewey Decimal categories before she could read and she could read before all else. She obviously pities, but does not excuse, your ignorance of the Holdings of the Library. Hedwig is the personification of applied skill, a Delphi of learning. And, Hedwig Page has some problems. This is the story of renowned librarian, collector and inventor, Hedwig Page. The piece chronicles the life of a retired librarian, past and present.
Selected Exhibitions:
MADCAT , 5th Annual Women’s International Film Festival, 2001, and 2002 Tour
Maine International Film Festival, Waterville, Maine, July, 2001
Puppetroplis Film Festival, Chicago, 2001
Ann Arbor Film Festival and Tour, 2001
Black Maria Film and Video Festival and Tour, 2000
Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel July, 2000
Museum of Modern Art, NY, March, 2000
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Art Museum, February, 2000
College of the Atlantic, 2000
Athenaeum Theater, Chicago, 1998
Awards:
Ann Arbor Film Festival Screening Committee's Choice Award for Narrative Integrity, and
Marvin Felheim Award Special Jury Prize, 2001
Black Maria Film and Video Festival, First Place (Juror’s Choice), 2000
Woods Marm (16mm film, B&W, puppet animation with live sound, 30 minutes, 1996, written, directed, cinematography, editing, puppets and animation by Nancy Andrews)
Woods Marm is part school pageant, part vaudeville film presentation, part puppet production and part folk opera. The Woods Marm is Hermione Pine, a hobby entomologist and botanist, "It would take a lively grasshopper to escape Miss Pine." The story unfolds in the Great Northern Forest under Giant Pines as the diminutive Woods Marm leaves the city, makes her Home in the trunk of a tree and discovers some things about Life.
Selected Exhibitions:
Images Festival, Toronto, Ontario
Ann Arbor Film Festival , 2000
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1999
Chicago Puppet Festival, 1999 (16mm film)
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Art Museum ,1999
Guggenheim Museum, International Puppet Film Festival, 1998
Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland 1997 N.A.M.E. Gallery Chicago, IL 1996
College of the Atlantic, Maine, 2000
An Epic Falling Between the Cracks (16mm film, B&W, puppet animation with live sound, 20 minutes, 1996, written, directed, cinematography, editing, music, puppets and animation by Nancy Andrews)
An Epic Falling Between the Cracks presents the Voyages of Frances Coco and her dog side-kick, Lemuel as related by a documentary filmmaker through film, animation, monologue and song. Frances, an 18 inch puppet, leaves the comfort of her shoe box bed and sets off on a series of adventures, including remote locations in outer space and underwater. Its a space age, existential, Nanook of the North.
Selected Exhibitions:
Museum of Modern Art, NY , 2000
College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME 1996
Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL 1996
Cleveland Performance Art Festival 1996
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995
Theater Project, Baltimore, MD 1994
14K Cabaret, Baltimore, MD 1995
Blue Rider Theater, Chicago, IL 1994
Franklin Furnace (Knitting Factory) NY, NY 1995
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada 1996
MIX Gay and Lesbian Experimental Film and Video Festival, NY, NY 1996
