Andrea Reising is a multi-media artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She completed undergraduate studies in Visual Arts and Writing at Columbia University, and received a Masters in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute. In 2000, Reising began Drunken Buffalo Arts, an independent publisher of art, music and writing. Reising studied guitar and voice at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. She performs as a singer-songwriter, and has produced three albums, “My Achilles Heel” 2004, “Underbelly” 2002, and “Rodeo Queen” 2000. In fall of 1998, Reising independently published her first poetry collection. Columbia University published a second collection, entitled “Gadfly Wiles,” in spring 2000. “Open City” literary journal published an excerpt of “Gadfly Wiles” in fall 2000. Reising exhibits photographs, painting and installations in New York and Milwaukee. In 2002, she was nominated by Columbia University for the Mortimer Hayes-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship. In the spring of 2008, Reising won the C40 International Award for Sustainability in the Arts. Her recent multimedia project entitled “The Self Generation Corporation” involves research and development of products and technologies to create a self-sustaining energy consumer.