Andrea Trombetta

Originally from Chicago, IL, Andrea Trombetta is a visual artist and lecturer in studio art, who began her journey in academia at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater to then later receive her BA in Studio Art and MFA in Fabric Design from the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. She currently teaches Art Appreciation, Ideation + Methodologies and Thematic Inquiry in Contemporary Art in addition to Cultural Diversity in American Art, Drawing I, Material Futures, Screen printing, Textile Foundations and Three-Dimensional Design at UGA. Trombetta serves on the art school’s Studio Core Ad Hoc committee and recently became the new UGA Summer Art Camp Director. Locally, Trombetta taught Fiber classes at the Lyndon House Arts Center in addition to Oglethorpe University, University of North Georgia + Athens Technical College. She facilitates movement and somatic classes in the Athens community at Canopy, Floorspace and Nimbl, keeping in practice with her love of dance. Over the last twenty years, Trombetta has actively exhibited two- and three-dimensional fiber art and performance work both nationally and internationally in France, Iceland, Italy, Japan, and Morocco. Trombetta currently live and teaches in Athens, GA with an active studio practice as a mover, fiber artist and cultural contributor to the field of art.

“Through performative action, I create conceptual and body-oriented art in order to share visions, observations, and the inevitable transitions of the human condition. I believe the ephemerality of performance is crucial to its force. My research explores the body as media, liveness, materiality, and site specificity expressing how they can be sources of experimentation to transcend the mundane. I strive to produce mysterious and innovative works of art that invite others to connect with human gesture, reality or illusion. I am in constant conversation with my body and the landscape, creating conceptual agendas and unique imagery about what it feels to grieve, love, and live. My work is motivated by ancient and contemporary uses and manipulations of fabric, identity, land, movement, time-based art, and collaboration. When producing my sculptural garments, I attempt to take cloth out of a utilitarian context and to legitimize its use as fine art media. As a maker and thinker, my foundations in fabric and somatic movement research continue to allow me to produce and contribute to the contemporary field of performance. The interdisciplinary exchanges I have teaching my students, allow my professional experiences into the classroom, not just as theory, but as practical knowledge and skills gained through my work. Fiber artist, mentor and professor, Glen Kaufman (1932-2020), was a crucial source of encouragement to my education and artwork, both in the field of fiber art and performance.”

Press

• University of Georgia Graduate School Magazine: “The Artist Andrea Trombetta, on becoming an abstraction.” https://gradstories.uga.edu/andrea-trombetta/
• The Red and Black: “Fabric design program adapts to projects without studio, store access.” By Macartney, Sophia. https://www.redandblack.com/culture/fabric-design-program-adapts-to-projects-without-studio-store-access/article_8fcd1e2c-9bc1-11ea-acf0-af90f2a1378a.html