Born in Kalamazoo, currently living in Detroit, Andrea Eckert is a mixed media artist, educator and mother of three. She received her BFA in Studio Art in 2002 from Michigan State University and MFA in Painting from Kendall College of Art and Design in 2008. Eckert has exhibited regionally and nationally for the past decade, and has instructed painting and printmaking at various institutions throughout the state. Eckert co-founded and directed, Holding House, an arts non-profit pairing service organizations with Detroit artists from 2013-2019.
EDUCATION
BFA Studio Art
Michigan State University
2003
MFA Painting/Printmaking
Kendall College of Art and Design
2008
TEACHING/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2024- Oakland Community College Art Faculty
2022-2025 Rosedale Park Improvement Association Board of Directors
2013-2020 Founder/Director, Holding House, Detroit, MI
2018 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Fellow
2011-2021 College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2016-2018 Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology Board Member
2015 Detroit Public Library, Detroit, MI
2008-2011 Jackson College, Jackson, MI
2007-2008 Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Too Much, Not Enough, Andrea Eckert/Nathan Tonning, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI
2013 AZULE Art Residency Exhibition, Hot Springs Community Center, Hot Springs, NC
2013 Cleave, Corktown Studio, Detroit, MI
2012 Clip & Ventilate, Starkweather Art Center, Romeo, MI
2011 Windblown, CultureWorks Art Center, Holland, MI
Van Single Art Center, Byron Center, MI
2010 RECITATE, Jackson College, Faculty Exhibition
2006 Archetypes, Studio71South, Grand Rapids, MI
2003 Vertical Landscape, Creole Gallery, Lansing, MI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Salad Days, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
2019 Power Couples, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
2017 The Lounge of Saturn, Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI
PrintNow, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2016 Edition 16, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI
Detroit Sequential, Rotland Press, Detroit, MI
Michigan State University Alumni Exhibition, E.Lansing, MI
2015
Edition 15, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI
Windsor Printmaking Forum, Invitational, Windsor, ON
2014
Mid-American Print Council, Group Exhibition, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
PRINTSHOW(Curator), Holding House, Detroit, MI
A Bright Spot on a Cloudy Day, Ocelot Print Shop, Detroit, MI
2013
Corktown Studio Invitational Exhibition, Detroit, MI
OH+5, Regional Exhibition, Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens, OH
Overt and Ulterior Taxonomies, (Curator) Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
BROTKATZE - COLLABORATIONS IV – Kunststück, Berlin
2012
Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center MI
MACAA Members Exhibition, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2010
Balance, Woman’s Caucus for Art, Dudestadt Center, University of Michigan
Water Street Coffee Joint, Kalamazoo, MI
Bloom+Process, Byrneboehm Gallery, Grand Rapids,MI
The Fiction Project, Brooklyn Public Library, NY2009
Unidentified, Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, GA
Raw, Lake Cumberland Art Center, KY
2008
From Our Perspective, Oakland Community College, Detroit, MI
26th Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition, BBAC, Birmingham,MI
Found Object Art, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA
Jackson Community College Faculty Exhibition, Jackson, MI
Wet, Somerset County Arts Council, Somerset, KY
2006
MSU/Kendall College Graduate Candidate Collective, E.Lansing, MI
Bits and Pieces, Lowell Area Arts Council, Lowell, MI
GALEX40, Annual National Competition, Galesburg, IL
Fun PIGS on Parade, Free Radicals Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
Art Battle V, UICA, Grand Rapids, MI
2005
The Buddy System, 555 Gallery, Detroit, MI
Dancing Crane Gallery, Group Exhibition, Lansing, MI
Chat Rouge, All-Women Competition, Lansing, MI
2004
Outside Circle Collective, Detroit, MI
23rd Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition, BBAC, Birmingham ,MI
Art-In-The-Park, City of Lansing, Lansing, MI
2003
Art Overseas, Michigan StateUniversity Fine Art Library, E.Lansing, MI
All Regional Competition, Lansing Center for the Arts, Lansing, MI
Annual Undergraduate Competition, Michigan State University, E.Lansing, MI
2002
Otherwise Gallery, Two-person Exhibition, Lansing, MI
Annual Undergraduate Competition, Michigan State University, E.Lansing,MI
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2016 To Touch the Sky With Two Arms: Kim Harty and Brian Caponi
2016 Turnover a Spread: Book Arts Group Exhibition: Holding House, Detroit, MI
2015 PRINTSHOW Mid-American Print Conference: Holding House, Detroit, MI
PUBLICATIONS
Making Art Accessible for Detroit Neighborhoods, Michigan State University, College of Arts & Letters, Deans Report 2017
The Rapid and Persistent Issues of Detroit's Art Gallery Scene, ModelD, August 2016
Detroit Sequential, Rotland Press, 2016
Artist Books that Break with Traditional Binding, Hyperallergic, February 2016
PRINTSHOW, KnightArts Blog, September 2014
Stage and Canvas, Detroit Metro Times, 2013
Studio Visit Magazine Volume Nineteen, 2013
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