Andria Green is a Midwest artist, illustrator, and printmaker living in the beautiful city of Chicago. She was born in Milwaukee, moved around the Midwest during her childhood, and finally settled into the Chicago area permanently when she was in high school. Her creative adventures began as a child, teaching herself to cross stitch ornaments and embroidery hoops as gifts for family members. She enjoyed hand sewing pillows, creating figures out of clay, and making matching jewelry for special occasion outfits. As an adult out of college, she began her creative career with nature photography, jewelry making, and watercolor illustrations. However, the two printmaking classes she took in college stuck with her, and she sought a way to put her illustrations to use to create home goods and accessories. In 2015, she bought a set of block printing inks and carving blocks and fell in love all over again with block printing. She began experimenting with digital and hand-printed fabrics and loved the hands-on messiness of block printing. From there, her work has expanded to hand-dyed textiles, embroidered details, ice dyeing, and the occasional screen print. Andria also taught herself basic sewing techniques through tutorials and years of practice. Block printing, however, will always have her heart. The simple and rhythmic process of printing repeat patterns has blossomed into an entire product line of towels, napkins, pouches, and more over the past 10 years. In May 2015, Andria began wholesale selling hand-block printed wine bags to a handful of stores in the country, which has since expanded to over 50 small shops across the U.S. selling her towels, wallets, and table runners. She has worked with FabFitFun on an illustrated coloring book, is featured in Botanica by Uppercase Magazine, and has sold at hundreds of art and craft shows over the past 10 years. Andria’s work has also been featured in Etsy’s holiday television ad in 2020, as well as local Chicago networks such as NBC Chicago and WGN.