Nancy Neaher Maas: RESUME
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At Wegman's, Ithaca Festival, 2009, and Nancy's studio
Nancy paints in upstate New York, northern Michigan and in the Southwest, as well as many other places with visual appeal. She exhibits nationally and is well known for her collaged watercolor weavings, a technique she developed more than twenty years ago.
Art on display: year round in Ithaca at Contemporary Trends, Corners Gallery and Cornell University Bookstore. Various national special exhibitions in San Diego, Phoenix, Washington D.C., Taos, New Mexico, northern Michigan and upstate New York.
Memberships: Signature member, San Diego Watercolor Society, Taos Society of Watercolorists and Central New York State Society of Watercolorists ; member, Arizona Watercolor Association.
Awards: First prize for architectural landscape, CNYWS, 2008. People's Choice Award, 2008, Community School, Ithaca .Juried into Taos national Exhibition 2008, Western Federation of Watercolorists 2009, San Diego Watercolor Society International Exhibition, 2009 and 2010, Arizona Watercolor Association national show, 2010. Chosen as official artist of the nationally known Ithaca Festival, 2009.
Publications:American Artist( Dec 1998), Watercolor (Summer 1996, 2003) , Coastal Living (April 2005, Oct 2009), Traverse Magazine (August 2002),and Life in the Finger Lakes (Fall 2006).
As Juror: painting competitions in Ithaca and Florida.
Workshops:Ithaca, Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, FL., Cazenovia, NY, Phoenix, AZ. See WORKSHOPS for further information.
Nancy is also an art historian, specializing in the arts of Africa. She taught at the university level for many years, including Hunter College, New York City, Wayne State University, Detroit, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, SUNY Cortland College, Cortland, New York, and most extensively at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. Education: Smith College (B.A.), Harvard University (M.A.T.) and Stanford University (M.A., Ph.D.). Art Education:Numerous workshops in the art of painting and watercolor, including ones by Peter Kahn, Tim Taylor, Charles Reid, Judy Betts, Virginia Cobey and Carla O'Connor.
International experience beginning as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia, followed by extensive living, traveling and researching in sub-Saharan Africa. Subsequent travel to many parts of the world with her family continues, inspiring her art.
