Filmmaker, choreographer and artist. Wife of actor Steve Buscemi (m. 1987). Mother of Lucian (b. 1990).
Mary Jo Andres was born on May 21, 1954, in Wichita, Kan., and moved with her family to Hilliard, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, when she was 2 years old. Her father, Martin, was a professor of veterinary medicine at Ohio State University; her mother, Rosemarie (Caiaccia) Andres, was a home economics teacher. She graduated from Ohio University, in Athens, with a bachelor's degree in dance, and later earned a master's in film there.
By the early 1990s, Ms. Andres had largely stopped working as a choreographer, although she directed a dance number in "The Impostors," a 1998 film directed and starring Stanley Tucci; instead she turned to making short films.
One of them, "Black Kites" (1996), adapted portions of a diary written by the visual artist Izeta Gradevic while she was hiding from snipers and mortars in the basement of an abandoned theater during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992, early in the Bosnian war.
Film and dance were not Ms. Andres's only artistic endeavors: She also painted and created cyanotypes, using a 19th-century photographic process to produce eerie, nightmarish deep-blue images.
She was an artist-in-residence at leading universities, museums and art colonies, including Yaddo, and The Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.
In addition to her husband and son, Ms. Andres is survived by her brothers, Tim, Pat and Mike, and a sister, Dayna Andres Harp.
Ms. Andres was given a natural burial after a private funeral held at her home.
Mary Jo Andres was born on May 21, 1954, in Wichita, Kan., and moved with her family to Hilliard, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, when she was 2 years old. Her father, Martin, was a professor of veterinary medicine at Ohio State University; her mother, Rosemarie (Caiaccia) Andres, was a home economics teacher. She graduated from Ohio University, in Athens, with a bachelor's degree in dance, and later earned a master's in film there.
By the early 1990s, Ms. Andres had largely stopped working as a choreographer, although she directed a dance number in "The Impostors," a 1998 film directed and starring Stanley Tucci; instead she turned to making short films.
One of them, "Black Kites" (1996), adapted portions of a diary written by the visual artist Izeta Gradevic while she was hiding from snipers and mortars in the basement of an abandoned theater during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992, early in the Bosnian war.
Film and dance were not Ms. Andres's only artistic endeavors: She also painted and created cyanotypes, using a 19th-century photographic process to produce eerie, nightmarish deep-blue images.
She was an artist-in-residence at leading universities, museums and art colonies, including Yaddo, and The Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.
In addition to her husband and son, Ms. Andres is survived by her brothers, Tim, Pat and Mike, and a sister, Dayna Andres Harp.
Ms. Andres was given a natural burial after a private funeral held at her home.
Filmmaker, choreographer and artist. Wife of actor Steve Buscemi (m. 1987). Mother of Lucian (b. 1990).
Mary Jo Andres was born on May 21, 1954, in Wichita, Kan., and moved with her family to Hilliard, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, when she was 2 years old. Her father, Martin, was a professor of veterinary medicine at Ohio State University; her mother, Rosemarie (Caiaccia) Andres, was a home economics teacher. She graduated from Ohio University, in Athens, with a bachelor's degree in dance, and later earned a master's in film there.
By the early 1990s, Ms. Andres had largely stopped working as a choreographer, although she directed a dance number in "The Impostors," a 1998 film directed and starring Stanley Tucci; instead she turned to making short films.
One of them, "Black Kites" (1996), adapted portions of a diary written by the visual artist Izeta Gradevic while she was hiding from snipers and mortars in the basement of an abandoned theater during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992, early in the Bosnian war.
Film and dance were not Ms. Andres's only artistic endeavors: She also painted and created cyanotypes, using a 19th-century photographic process to produce eerie, nightmarish deep-blue images.
She was an artist-in-residence at leading universities, museums and art colonies, including Yaddo, and The Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.
In addition to her husband and son, Ms. Andres is survived by her brothers, Tim, Pat and Mike, and a sister, Dayna Andres Harp.
Ms. Andres was given a natural burial after a private funeral held at her home.
Mary Jo Andres was born on May 21, 1954, in Wichita, Kan., and moved with her family to Hilliard, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, when she was 2 years old. Her father, Martin, was a professor of veterinary medicine at Ohio State University; her mother, Rosemarie (Caiaccia) Andres, was a home economics teacher. She graduated from Ohio University, in Athens, with a bachelor's degree in dance, and later earned a master's in film there.
By the early 1990s, Ms. Andres had largely stopped working as a choreographer, although she directed a dance number in "The Impostors," a 1998 film directed and starring Stanley Tucci; instead she turned to making short films.
One of them, "Black Kites" (1996), adapted portions of a diary written by the visual artist Izeta Gradevic while she was hiding from snipers and mortars in the basement of an abandoned theater during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992, early in the Bosnian war.
Film and dance were not Ms. Andres's only artistic endeavors: She also painted and created cyanotypes, using a 19th-century photographic process to produce eerie, nightmarish deep-blue images.
She was an artist-in-residence at leading universities, museums and art colonies, including Yaddo, and The Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.
In addition to her husband and son, Ms. Andres is survived by her brothers, Tim, Pat and Mike, and a sister, Dayna Andres Harp.
Ms. Andres was given a natural burial after a private funeral held at her home.
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