Visiting Artist Residency: May 20 - 24, 2009
Conversation with the Artist: May 24, 2pm Theater

Artist Biography
Nancy Blair is an artist and published author. She received her BFA from Alfred University in New York and an MFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Jersey. She is a recent recipient of a Hauberg Fellowship at Pilchuck Glass School where she was also a Professional Artist in Residence, instructor, scholarship recipient, and teaching assistant. She has been a teaching assistant at The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, and the Creative Glass Center of America at Wheaton Village in Millville, New Jersey. She is represented by Traver Gallery in Tacoma.

Her mostly narrative sculptures and mixed media works include glass, ceramics and found objects. She has exhibited her art both internationally and nationally, and has been commissioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Franklin Mint, The Women’s National Education Association, and the United States Olympic Equestrian Museum. Her Goddess sculpture was selected for inclusion in Oliver Stone’s movie, The Doors.

Interviews have appeared in New Yorker magazine, and she was listed in Manhattan Arts Magazine as an artist “to watch.” She has won numerous awards and grants including The Manhattan Council for the Arts Award (NYC), the Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant, the Women’s Studio Workshop Grant, and a residency at Urban Glass. She has been interviewed internationally for radio and television, and was featured in a PBS special.

Her recent book, Thank You, Your Opinion Means Nothing To Me, a snarky memoir about mid-life, is published by HarperCollinsPublishers. She received critical acclaim in USAWeekend Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, Florida Today newspaper, and a highly regarded review by Olympia Dukakis.

She is represented by Traver Gallery in Seattle, Washington with an upcoming solo exhibition in May 2009. She has been invited as a visiting artist at Museum of Glass. Her sculpture and installation works combine glass, ceramics, works on paper, found objects and a series of videos entitled “One-Minute Meds.” Her work is in the collection of Elton John.