Andi Burnum is a mixed media artist. She got her first picture published in the school calendar in second grade and has been creating ever since. Andi decided to major in art in college and made it an entire year before deciding that no one could make a living doing studio art and she didn’t want to do graphic design. Pre-med seemed like a nice choice. After a quick detour medical assisting in the orthopedic world, she decided that perhaps this wasn’t creative enough. It seemed logical to start a moderately successful chocolate truffle company, AndiChocolates. Eventually, Andi found herself putting more creative energy into designing the chocolate boxes than the chocolates. After a small natural disaster, she decided to box up the business and move on. Although she’d been doing art as side projects for years, in 2014 she finally circled around and found herself being fulfilled with creating fine art more or less full time. Largely self-taught, she’s been refining her process over the last 20 years. In 2018 she decided to begin illustrating a page a day, to better her drawing skills and she fell in love with sketchbooks. An Atwood native, Andi presently lives in Colorado but her heart is in the open skies of Kansashome of her family farm and major artistic inspiration. Only a few hours from Evergreen, she’s “employed” as a part time farm hand on the much-loved farm and heads back whenever she gets a chance. While there and when she’s supposed to be working, she’s often found getting in trouble for taking pictures of cows during critical times, such as when bulls are fighting. Andi’s artworks have been exhibited in numerous shows, receiving high accolades. She has recently begun illustrating for commercial projects as well as dabbling in the overwhelming world of picture books.