Andrea Buckvold received a B.A from The Colorado College, and an M.F.A. in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to founding abcde, Andrea experimented in her everyday life, career and creative work. She has worked as a gallery educator for the Liberace Museum and Guggenheim Las Vegas/Guggenheim Hermitage, as a Evanston Art Center children's art teacher, an adjunct professor at UW-Madison, CCSN, and at SIUC, a cocktail waitress at the Green Mill, Chicago, a bartender at Imperial Gardens, Madison, a printing assistant for Tandem Press, and an office manager for 3-D Chicago and Carbondale Community Arts.

Andrea also works collaboratively with her husband, Chris Wildrick, under the name Earl.

Raised in Minneapolis, MN, she currently concentrates on Las Vegas from her studio in Syracuse, NY, where she works "in the manner of art, but at a leisurely pace."