Andrew McCauley
Associate Professor of First-Year Experience
- First-Year Experience
Andrew McCauley earned a Master of Fine Arts from CCAD and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He has taught at CCAD as an Associate Professor since 2012; in 2019, McCauley was Vice President of the Biannual FATE (Foundations in Art: Theory and Education) conference hosted by CCAD.
McCauley’s work has been shown internationally and nationally, including places such as Xi’an, China and Kunst+Bau eG, Gostritzer Straße in Dresden, Germany. He participated in Greater Columbus Arts Council’s Dresden (Germany) Artist Exchange in 2015, and as a CCAD ambassador to Qingdao, China. In 2014, McCauley was a speaker and lecturer for the international and interdisciplinary conference: Culture, Values, and Justice at the University of Vaasa, Finland and at the SECAC conference Collisions: Where Past Meets Present, Teaching Quality and Aesthetics of Sustainability in Durham, North Carolina.
McCauley’s mission as an educator is to encourage, influence, and teach students to think and act in a way that serves to improve the quality of their lives. He aims to maximize each student’s full potential with positive reinforcement and positive criticism while administering a thought provoking set of challenges. McCauley’s vision is to create a learning environment where each student feels confident and comfortable so as to expand their knowledge, awareness, and interactions with their community in order to thrive as a self-sustaining artist/designer.
McCauley’s creative work revolves around the effects that diseases such as multiple sclerosis and epilepsy have on the body and mind. Atrophy and decline of the central nervous system are formalized as he incorporates the human figure into a narrative landscape that acts as a metaphor for memory loss. His characters are caught in the experience of nervous and circulatory system failure and ultimately, a total loss of mobility. Each is surrounded by the deconstruction and fractionation of archetypal memories. The playful, intentionally unsophisticated characters act as a balance to lighten the heavy connotation of their decline.
