Andrew Blanchard was raised in Waveland, a small beach community on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Like most boys who grew up close to a beach, he fished and swam until the ring of the dinner bell. At a young age, he became fascinated with the bold, curvilinear woodcuts of another Coast native, Walter Anderson. From This early inspiration, he established his love for printmaking.

Blanchard earned a B.A. degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2000. Shortly thereafter, he traveled to Paris, France to work and study with Frederic Possot, a master lithography printer. This experience solidified his desire to be a lifelong artist- printmaker. In 2004, he earned his M.F.A. from The University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS.

In the last three years, Blanchard has been included in over a dozen national and international juried printmaking exhibitions, including the 30th Bradley International Printmaking and Drawing Exhibition and the last two Parkside National Small Print Exhibitions. He has won awards for his lithograph-silkscreen combination prints in the Sumei International Printmaking Exhibition and the Delta National Small Print Exhibition. He is currently included in the Refresh Print Biennial, a traveling showcase on contemporary printmaking. In addition, his prints have been collected throughout the United States, as well as Paris, France, and Seoul, South Korea. Blanchard is also a member of the Mid America Print Council and the Florida Printmakers Association.