Former Instructor of Art at Mississippi State University, His show Fortnight was shown at Mississippi University for Women Fine Arts Gallery, February 25 to March 7, 2008. Andrews is a native of Starkville, Mississippi.
He was director of MSU’s McComas Art Gallery and previously taught art at Starkville High School. He was also the director of the University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses. In 2011, he was hired as the director of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Well known in the art community statewide and beyond, Andrews was named the 2008 Mississippi Arts Commission Visual Arts Fellow. He has had solo exhibitions in Ellisville, Greenville, Columbus, Laurel, and Meridian, Mississippi. He has also participated in group exhibitions in Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, Brooklyn and Little Rock.
Read an article about William Pittman Andrews, on Creating a Southern Narrative.