Moment in Time Photo Project & Installation

He is also a former winner of the Los Angeles Review Award for poetry, Chicago poetry slam champion and national poetry slam finalist. His visual work has been shown at Fredericks & Mae’s, Chicago Artist Coalition, University of Illinois and elsewhere. He resides in Chicago.

Through photography, video, and dance/performance, I seek to investigate and question the norms and customs that govern our understanding of each other, our families, and the myriad of societal struggles and triumphs.   I studied fashion, house music and dance club culture before receiving a MFA in Photography at Columbia College Chicago, where I currently serve as an adjunct professor and a teaching artist at the Center for Community Arts Partnership at Columbia College Chicago.

My work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, with works in the permanent collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, Chicago Bank of America LaSalle Collection, and Museum of Contemporary Photography. I was awarded the: Joyce Foundation Midwest Voices & Visions Award, the Artadia Award, The Swiss Benevolent Society, Lucerne, Switzerland Residency and the 3Arts Teaching Artist Award. I participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program in July 2013.

In 2016 the first edition of my monograph In The Company of Black was published and was shortlisted by the Aperture Foundation for the 2017 First PhotoBook Award.

 He has participated as an actor, director, or writer in the workshop and development of more than forty Lookingglass original adaptations and world premieres.  He directed the 2016 production of Aaron Posner’s Life Sucks; wrote the book and lyrics for the 2012 production, Eastland: A New Musical; co-wrote the 2011 world-premiere, The Last Act of Lilka Kadison (subsequently produced at the Falcon Theatre in LA); wrote and directed the 2004 adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, which received a Jeff Award for best Adaptation; and wrote and directed the company’s 1989 production of Of One Blood, about the 1964 murders of Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman in Mississippi.

As Director of Community Engagement, Andrew is focused on building sustained relationships with community partner organizations. Since 1990 he has participated as both a teaching artist and administrator with Lookingglass Education and Community programs, working with students of all ages to create new work of their own. This has included developing and implementing arts-integrated units in elementary and high schools; facilitating faculty workshops in schools across the Chicagoland area; and working with teenagers across the city to use theater as a means of engaging their peers in dialogue about community issues, from HIV to racism. He has taught Acting as an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University and National Louis University. Andrew has been a facilitator with the Anti-Defamation League, led Summer Institute sessions with teachers for Facing History and Ourselves, and has worked in corporate, non-profit, and classroom environments, structuring and facilitating conversations with participants around organizational and community issues. In 2007, Andrew co-founded Mosaic Experience, a company dedicated to dialogue and an arts-based approach to facilitating conversations about diversity with educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and corporations throughout Chicagoland. He lives in Evanston where his family includes his wife Shari, their two progeny, Julia and Asher, and a cat named Jane.