Dolores Andrew

Dolores M. Andrew is an artist and designer who creates work in a variety of media in the needleart and fine art disciplines, often depicting the same subject in each discipline.

Dolores is a NAN certified teacher and completed the NAN Honors program. After earning the Basic Certification in Crewel, she studied a variety of other media and techniques to complete the NAN Teacher Certification. Her Honors topic was a research of Italian Renaissance Textiles, which took her to several Italian cities.

She is also a NAN Certified Master Judge, and was Director of Judging Certification for the National Academy of Needlearts for six years. In 2005, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from NAN. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Maryland Institute College of Art. Dolores has recently retired as an Associate Professor of Art at Essex Community College in Baltimore County, Maryland. In the summer, she lives in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where she has been on the faculty of the Rehoboth Art League for the last twenty-six years. In the art world, her favorite media are pen and ink, watercolor, and soft pastel, which she now teaches in workshop format.

In addition to her work as a teacher, Dolores Andrew is a designer, lecturer, judge and author. She is active in several art and embroidery organizations. She had judged local, and national shows for more than twenty-five years. Dolores has written and illustrated three books on textile subjects. She is represented by several galleries, and her art work has been accepted in juried exhibitions throughout the U.S. Currently, she represents NANat ICNA , with the position of Treasurer

Her web site is DoloresAndrewDesigns.com.