Meet the Artist: Andy Dahl
With the support of the College Park City-University Partnership, the Prince George’s County Redevelopment Authority’s Community Impact Grant, and the City of College Park’s Façade Improvement Grant, artist Andy Dahl will be producing a mixed-media public art installation in downtown College Park on Lehigh Road, set to be installed in the fall of 2024.
Andy Dahl is a painter, sculptor, filmmaker and public artist with an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Arts (MICA). Though he currently resides in Baltimore, Andy grew up in a small town in the high desert in Southern California with an older sister, a blue-collar father and a mother who worked as a primary school teacher. In California, Andy experimented with multiple odd jobs such as auto mechanic and biological surveyor; he took several trips to Mexico and painted people he interacted with along the way.
“It is my sincere mission to live my short life with meaning, and thus human interactions are the focus of my attention. My formal obsessions with color, form, balance, temperature, expression, etc. are fueled by [human] connection[s].
My paintings are a reason for a coming together of people from diverse situations, and the facilitation of that experience motivates my entire process.”
Andy Dahl
In addition to producing large-scale public artworks, Andy currently works as a community organizer focused on connecting resources to undocumented communities in Southeast Baltimore. Dahl is also an Innovation Fellow with the Warnock Foundation, and winner of the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film and Media.
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