Presented by the Department of Craft/Material Studies
Thursday, April 24th from 4–6pm
FAB Gallery
1000 W. Broad

Nancy Blum currently lives and works between New York City and Richmond, VA. She received here MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Arts. Nancy makes drawings, sculpture and installations that explore pattern and the architecture of nature. Her works are visceral, meditative, an rhythmic.

Nancy recently completed a public art commissions fro the charlotte Area Transit System in Charlotte, NC, and the Metro Transit Authority, New York. As well, fifty manhole covers, produced by the Seattle Arts Commission and Seattle City Lights, are placed in heavily trafficked parts of that city and a 77-foot wall of aluminum and resin ‘flowers’ were permanently mounted in the Seattle/Tacoma International Airport.

Nancy has been both an artist in residence and a teacher at countless institutions and her work has been featured extensively in solo exhibitions at institutions and galleries across the country. Her work has been recognized through fellowships with the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Peter S. Reed Foundation, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.

For more information about the artist, visit www.nancyblum.com.

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