Named "Business Person of the Year 2008" by the Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce  Named "Artist of the Year" by the Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau for 2005-2006 & 2006-2007 BFA Painting, U of IL-Urbana MA Painting, EIU-Charleston, Instructor of Art, 3 years--named "2009 Distinguished Alumni" of their Graduate School.  Private study with American Masters: Schmid, Shapiro,     Silverman, Gerhartz, Daily, Burdick,  Aspevig, Auster. Over thirty one-person shows in Chicago from 1988 - 2008 as a result of painting trips to the following:  China, Hong Kong & Singapore, American Southwest, Peru, France, England, Scotland, Greece, Italy, Amsterdam, American South, Wales, Ireland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Spain, Mexico, the Bahamas, New England, the Midwest & the neighborhoods of Chicago.

Seek God, Love All People, Change the World

Gallery representation:  ArtDeTriumph, Chicago;  American Art Resources, Houston; Corporate Art Works, Schaumburg; SoHo Myriad, Atlanta; Edgewood Orchard, Door Co.WI; Joseph Layton, Galena, IL: studio b, Three Oaks, MI; Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts; Printmakers Chicago
Published work: book articles, magazines, program covers, posters, calendars and notecards, and numerous limited edition prints. 
Production: approximately 100+ original oils, pastels & watercolors annually. 

Collections: worldwide, including such noteworthy collectors as American Airlines, BP Amoco, Cosmopolitan Bank & Trust, Motorola, Lee Flaherty & Flair Communications, Juanita & Michael Jordan, Maria Pappas, Fritz Duda Co., Chicago's River Center, Tabet/DiVito/Rothstein, Boeing Co., Prentice Hospital.

Opened in 2003:  ArtDeTriumph:  a gallery/store to showcase Nancie's work as well as other Chicago artists working in a representational style.  ArtDeTriumph is located at 2936-38 N Clark in Chicago's Lincoln Park/Lakeview neighborhood.
Nancie has owned Artful Framer Studios, a custom framing firm since 1979. In April 2009, Nancie will receive the "Distinguished Alumni" Award from the Graduate School at Eastern IL University.  Nancie was named "Business Person of the Year 2008" by the Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce; she was the "Artist of the Month" in Artists' Magazine and Pastel Journal in Sept. 2008, and "Official Artist of the Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau" for 2005-2006 & 2006-2007.  Artful Framer Studios was  named "Small Business of the Year 2000" by Chicago's Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce.
She has served on several boards, including 13 years on the board of the Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts, and is a strong supporter of philanthropic organizations in Chicago. She was appointed in Fall of 2008 to the Advocate Charitable Council.  In 1999, Nancie was awarded the "Entrepreneurial Achievement Award" by the Network of Women Entrepreneurs and was President in 2000. She is a member of Holy Covenant United Methodist, serving as their gallery curator for 12 years.  She is a member of the Chicago Pastel Painters and Pastel Society of America with signature status for both, a member of Oil Painters of America, and the Chicago Plein Air Painters.  She's one of the Rosalind Franklin Cooperative Medical Arts Group and part of the Door County Invitational Plein Air Festival.
 

"Shadow, shape, color and composition govern my view of the world, providing a discovery of beauty in the commonplace.  Fortunately, my work enables me to travel and explore the world, plein air, with  brush and paint. It is my hope that the viewer can witness the beauty or story I strive to convey in each image and delight in its creation."

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