Andi Olsen’s short film Where the Smiling Ends is currently on exhibition at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, and has also been shown at the Revolving Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts; the Los Angeles International Shorts Festival; and Valley Film Festival. Hideous Beauties: A Freak Show is her ongoing installation of video/DVD, assemblages, and collage-texts that explore the notion of monstrosity. Her art has been exhibited and published around the country and abroad. She has collaborated with her writer-husband Lance Olsen on computer-generated collage-texts, as well as on a video tribute to Kathy Acker. Born in 1959, Olsen received a B.A. (1982) and an M.A. (1985) in art history from the University of Virginia. She has taught at the University of Idaho, the University of Kentucky, Kentucky State University, Lexington Community College, the University of Virginia, and on summer and semester-abroad programs in Oxford and London, but has turned her attention full-time toward her artwork. She resides in the mountains of central Idaho and Salt Lake City.