Baker Artist Portfolios

Andrea Sherrill Evans (she/her) is an Arizona-born, Baltimore-based artist and educator whose work explores interconnection and resilience within the natural world. Evans has a long-standing interest in historical drawing mediums and processes, which guides her use of materials ranging from silverpoint and watercolor to handmade inks, charcoal, and paper. In her recent work, Evans utilizes botanical materials carefully foraged in local and visited environments to fabricate drawing mediums and substrates that carry a specificity of time and place.

Evans received her BFA in Painting from Arizona State University and MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Tufts University. Her work has been exhibited at VisArts (Rockville, MD), C. Grimaldis Gallery (Baltimore, MD), Mother-in-Law’s (Germantown, NY), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn, NY), Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA), and phICA (Phoenix, AZ).  Her recent solo exhibition at IA&A at Hillyer, New Growth, was featured in the Washington Post. Evans has been awarded residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and The Studios at MASS MoCA, and was a Denbo Fellow in Papermaking at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. She is a recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Drawing, and the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award. Evans is a full-time faculty member at Maryland Institute College of Art.