Andrea Packard works in a variety of media including sculpture, printmaking, and painting. Her current mixed-media landscapes on paper are inspired as much by the suggestive textures of fabrics and prints as by the dynamic forms of trees, rocky hillsides, and dense foliage. She is interested in creating a pictorial equivalent of nature’s power to surprise, renew, and inspire. Like her landscapes, her interiors and figure groups attempt to express deeply felt emotions and dynamic relationships while reveling in the mutability of form and perception.

Packard directs the List Gallery at Swarthmore College, where she has organized over 50 exhibitions in a variety of media ranging from contemporary book arts to conceptual installations to ceramics. She has written and edited exhibition catalogs about the work of artists such as Alison Saar, Buzz Spector, Judith Harold-Steinhauser, LeRoy Johnson, and Leland Bell.

A graduate of Swarthmore College (1985) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1989), she received her M.F.A. in painting from American University, Washington D.C. (1994). She is an alumnae of the Center for Emerging Artists, Philadelphia and has exhibited her work in over forty group and solo exhibitions in Connecticut, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. She has won over twenty awards for her work including residencies from St. Mary’s College, Maryland; the Vermont Studio Center, and Chester Springs Studio, Pennsylvania.