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Nancy Ferro

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Artist Bio
Nancy Ferro began her studies, with Ruth Harrison, while at The Hockaday School, in Dallas. She continued at the teachers college she attended in Nacogdoches, Texas, Stephen F. Austin University, graduating with a BA degree in Education, Art, and French. When time would permit she attended The University of Dallas, Irving, Texas, on scholarship, for both an MA and an MFA in Drawing and Printmaking. Here she studied with Juergen Strunck as her major professor.

She enjoys working with a multi media and textural approach, containing layers of paper, drawing, found objects, and paint, most often beeswax. She enjoys gathering, cutting, pasting, drawing, and painting. She has had exhibits, both gallery and museum, one person and multi person, both in state and out of state. She has been included in several national and international publications. She has reached out in the area of curation, and teaching workshops on many levels. She is particularly proud of a large gallery for student work that opened for all of the art students at Highland Park High School. She engaged the help of Highland Park Arts, HP Arts, and the Principal at the time, Robert Albano for space, and financial support . While there, she also found a large exhibiting space, off campus, for yearly shows at Half Price Books in Dallas. This was for her AP and Printmaking Students. She continued to teach as well as make art until very recently. Now she enjoys art making solely. 

Artist Statement
A favorite quotation of mine is simply part of a sentence from an Isaac Bashevis Singer novel, “...the patterns of continuous creation”. Each day when making decisions I look to the past and to current situations to create the present, part of the past is included, part of it left behind. The juxtaposition of the past with the present, both visual and conceptual, these are the contrasts and intersections with which I enjoy working. The ways they affect each other, both physically and intellectually, are of importance to me. My titles are taken from words or elements within the pieces. Materials that I use may be found materials, coming from friends, collections, walks, discards, and various papers. Others are more traditional artist materials and may include paper, pencil, crayon, paint, and beeswax. I enjoy working with the interplay of a complex variety of elements and materials.
 
Artist CV
Education:
The University of Dallas, Irving, Texas, MA, 1987, MFA, 1989
Stephen F. Austin, Nacogdoches, Texas, BA, 1966
The Hockaday School, 1962
 
Selected Competitions and Exhibitions:
2017               CHAOS 2017, RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
                       PRO-Wax Journal, Issue 14, Artists Using Circles
                       University of Dallas, View from the Art Village, 50 -Year Retrospective, Juror: Nancy Cohen, Israel, Irving, Texas
2016               Gift Grab RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
                       CHAOS 2016, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
                       19th Annual Woman Made Competition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
                       The Dallas Art Fair, with RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2015-16          Artsy.net, RO2 Gallery, Nancy Ferro
                       Cedar Valley College, Adaptive Reuse-Continuance, Lancaster, Texas, one person
2015               RO2 Gallery at The Magnolia, Adaptive reuse, Too!, Dallas, Texas
                       The Ant Colony, Adaptive Reuse Project, Dallas, Texas
                        Artspace111, Juried Competition (Vernon Fisher, Juror), Ft. Worth, Texas
                        Latino Cultural Center, Juried Competition, (multiple jurors), Dallas, Texas
                        Conrad Wild Gallery, Curator Miles Conrad, Shelter, 4 Person Exhibit, Tucson, Arizona
                        Chaos, Invitational, RO2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014                Subliminal, Juried Exhibition, 8 international Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, Ma., Dan Addington, Chicago, juror
                        University of Dallas, Juried competition,Students of Juergen Strunck, Mark Anderson, Juror, Irving, Texas
                        Authentic Visual Voices: Contemporary Paper and Encaustic by Catherine Nash, MFA, work included in....
2013                Nancy Ferro, Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas
                        Studio Visit Magazine, Winter Edition, Open Studios Press. Boston, MA., Juror-Barbara
               O’Brien
                        Texas Top Forty, Art on 5th Gallery, Austin, Texas
                        Studio Tour, Continental Gin Building, Dallas, Texas
                        7, Truro Center for The Arts at Castle Hill, Shawn Hill-Juror, 7th International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, Ma.
                       Centennial Exhibition, The Hockaday School, Juried by Alumnae,
2012               Northlake College, Revisiting the Discarded, Kary, Ferro, Yarbrough, Irving, Texas
2011               Elle Realty,“75218”, Dallas, Texas
                       White Rock Artists Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
                       One Foot of Wax, Northlake College, Irving Texas
2010               Easl Heist, 2010, Dallas, Texas
                       Nancy Ferro,The Encaustic Center, Cache, Richardson, Texas
                       Montserrat College, Best Foot Forward, Beverly, Massachusettes
                       Pfamily Arts Center Plano, Texas, Texas Wax Fusion
                       Art and Art History: Intersections, Collin County Community College, Plano, Texas
                       New American Paintings, Anniversary Edition, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusettes
2009               DallasArtsRevue.com’s 30th Anniversary Exhibit,Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
                       Kilgore College Exhibit, Encaustic, Dallas Wax, Kilgore, Texas
                       White Rock artists Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
                       Global swarming, Discovery Gardens, Dallas, Texas
                       The Encaustic Center, Richardson, Texas
                       Nancy Ferro, Bees and Bird, Curiosities Antique Shop, Dallas, Texas
                       Fifteen,The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
                       Nancy Ferro and Norman Kary, From Here to There, Bath House Cultural Center, Ferro/Kary, Dallas,Texas, Two person
                       Five x Seven, Arthouse Splurge and Exhibition, Austin, Texas
                       Four, Dallas, Barbars Elam, Cecelia Thurman, Nancy Ferro, VACD Gallery
2008               Winter, Dallas Arts Revue Artists
                       Citycalart, Calendar Artists at The Gallery at Oldfield Davis
                       Easl Heist, Artspace 111, Ft. Worth, Texas
                       Fierce, Juried, Dallas Arts Revue at The 14th Street Gallery in Plano, Texas
                       The Cedars Gallery hosts The Artists for The Citcalart Calendar
                       Davis, Ferro, Guignon, Thornton, Walsh, and Wygren, The Gallery at Oldfield Davis, (benefitting Turtle Creek Chorale)
                       Friends of Easl, Ft.Worth Community Arts Center, Ft. Worth, Texas
                       Juried Publication, Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts
                       Juried Publication, CityArt Cal, Dallas, Texas
2007              Easl Art Coloring Book, Dallas, Texas
                       War and Peace, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
                       White Rock Artist’s Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
                       Salon du FIT, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
                       Thinking about The Box, Museum of The Southwest, Midland, Texas
2006               Collin County Faculty Exhibition, Spring Creek Campus, Plano, Texas
                        Big as Night , two, 419 Gallery, Dallas Arts Revue Show, Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas
                       Trinity River, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
                        Easel Art Heist, Southside on Lamar, Dallas, Texas
                       Two From Texas, Nancy Ferro and Melodee Ramirez at Marie Park, Dallas, Texas
2005               Northlake Faculty Exhibition, Northlake College, Irving, Texas
                       Whiterock Artists at The. Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
                       Juried exhibition, Outside the Lines 5, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
                       One Person, Nancy Ferro,The Shape of Content, “Patterns of Continuous Creation” , The Museum of The Southwest, Midland, Texas
                       “..and they are”, Irving Arts Center, Irving , Texas
2004               Juried publication, New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts
                       Juried exhibition, Art In The Metroplex,TCU, Ft. Worth, Texas, Juror, Larry Rinder, Curator of Whitney Museum of Art
                       Bathhouse Cultural Center, White Rock Artist’s Exhibition, Dallas, Texas
                       “100 Drawings”, University of Dallas, Irving , Texas
2003               “Fragments”, Nancy Ferro, Caroline Waite, Ellen Frances Tuchman, Deborah Herring, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
                       Two Person Exhibition, Laurie Cox and Nancy Ferro at Marie Park, Dallas, Texas
2000-2004      White Rock Artists Studio Tour, Dallas, Texas
2002               “Four Teachers 4”: Ashley, Ferro, Obranovich, Smetzer, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas,
2001                Ferro and Van Wagoner, Recent Work, Northlake College
                        Dia de Los Muertos, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2000                Faculty Exhibit, Highland Park High School, Dallas, Texas,
1999                The Assemblage Art Awards, Irving, Texas
1998                The Continental Gin Artists, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
1996                Thirteenth Annual National Juried Exhibition, Warehouse of the Living Arts, Corsicana, Texas
                        Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Houston, Texas
1995                Invitational at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
                        Dallas Women’s Caucus for Art, National Juried Show, Irving, Texas
                        Drawings, Prints and Other Works on Paper, Northlake College, Irving, Texas
1994                Hats off To E.A.S.L., Emergency Artist’s Support League, Dallas, Texas
                        Exquisite Corpse Exhibition , DARE, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
                        Emergency Artist’s Support League, Trammel Crow Center, Dallas, Texas
                        Prints, Drawings and Other Works on Paper, Irving, Texas
1993                Tie One On, EASL, Emergency Artist’s Support League, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
                        Sixteenth Annual North Dakota Exhibition, Minot, North Dakota
                        DARE A to Z, The Bathhouse, Dallas, Texas
1992                EASL Artist’s Coloring Book, Emergency Artists Support League, Dallas, Texas
1991                Invitational, “Time is Relative”, Beverly Gordon Gallery, Dallas, Texas
                        One Person exhibition, The Hockaday School, Dallas, Texas
                        One Person Exhibition, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1990                Invitational, Works on Paper, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
                       “4: Recent Works”, Falsetta, Orr, Ferro, Hicks, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1989               Juried Exhibition, Common Ground: Beyond Boundaries, Dallas Women’s Caucus for Art, Dallas, Texas
                       13th Annual National Invitational National Drawing Exhibition, Emporia State University,
                  Emporia, Kansas
                       Group Invitational, “The Self-Portrait” Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1988               Juried Exhibition, Art In The Metroplex, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Texas,
                  Juror, John Neff
1988               Texas Visual Artists Association, 15th Annual Spring Exhibition, Dallas, Texas
                       Group Exhibition, Locus Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
                       One Person Exhibition, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
                       The Art of Printmaking, The Sheraton Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1987               Group Exhibition, Dallas Women’s Caucus for Art, Dallas City Hall, Juror’s Commendation, Dallas, Texas
                       Group Exhibition, “New Works In Fiber”, Mark Twain Gallery, Greenberg and Nussbaum, St. Louis, Missouri
                       Two Person Exhibition, Northlake College, Evelyn Baldwin and Nancy Ferro, Irving, Texas
                       Texas Cultural Alliance Invitational, Dallas, Texas, with exhibitions in Guadalajara, Colima City, and Satapas, Mexico
                       Four Person Exhibition, “Works by Ferro, Griffin, Strunck, and Van Wagoner”, Warehouse for The Living Arts, Corsicana, Texas
1986               Mountain View Invitational, Mountain View College, Dallas, Texas
                       Invitational Mask Show, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
                       “City Hall Open” Exhibition, juried, Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas
1985               “Citation Exhibition”, juried, San Jacinto Tower, Dallas, Texas
                       “Critic’s Choice, Texas Heritage”, Juried Exhibition, D-Art Visual Center, Dallas, Texas
 




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