Andy Meadows is a native of Montgomery Alabama where he received his undergraduate degree at Huntingdon College and his Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Alabama. He taught visual arts and created the Fine Art Photography program at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School. He also taught fine art photography at Mountain Brook High School for five years before coming to the Alabama State Department of Education.

Currently, he is the Arts Education Specialist in the Instructional Services Section under the Office of Teaching and Learning at the Alabama State Department of Education. This position includes the responsibility for coordinating and implementing fine art arts education programs and curriculum in dance, media arts, music, theater and visual arts as well as other assigned staff duties and responsibilities.

He serves on the Executive Leadership Team of the Alabama Artistic Literacy Consortium - a Collective Impact Model Arts Education Initiative that is a partnership between the Alabama State Department of Education and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Andy also serves on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Arts Alliance, Alabama Institute for Education in the Arts and the Alabama School of Fine Arts. He is a member of the National State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE) and the National Arts Education Association. He also serves as an Ex Officio board member for the Alabama Arts Educators Association, Alabama Music Educators Association, Alabama Dance Educators Association K12, and the Alabama Educational Theatre Association. Andy has exhibited his work in national and international shows and his work has been collected by museums and private collectors.