Andrea Bergart

Andrea is a visual artist and designer in New York City. Bergart makes paintings, drawings and public artworks ranging from murals on working cement trucks in Brooklyn to murals painted on basketball courts in Providence, RI, Conakry, Guinea and New York City. Bergart also designs handbags made of sports balls which are fabricated in the garment district and is currently designing a fashion line in collaboration with the Women’s National Basketball Association.

Bergart received a Fulbright Scholarship to Ghana, West Africa where she researched the bead and textile industries. She has also participated in the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation artist residency in Senegal, Tilleard Projects residency in Lamu, Kenya, and received a US embassy grant to travel to the United Arab Emirates. Bergart's work has been exhibited in the US and the UK and has been included in the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Art in Embassies Exhibition at the U.S. Mission to the African Union in Addis Ababa.

At Woodward, Bergart will develop her series of colored pencil basketball court drawings. A monograph of this series of drawings is slated to be published in the winter of 2024. These drawings will also help realize the final images of future basketball court murals.