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About Nannette

Nannette has been creating sculpture since 1961. Her most used media had been cast bronze, welded brass, and steel. In 2000, she changed to lighter, more fragile materials. But because of her background in metal, she was continually searching for ways to reinforce the fragile, to make her cardboard and clay pieces unbreakable.

Recurring sculptural themes include family; the human figure and face in realistic, abstract, mythical, and representational forms; nature; and the conflict between one's internal and external personalities. The Healing Process series of abstract-cardboard images symbolizes the period during which Nannette was her parents' caretaker, and, ultimately, had to cope with their passing. She exhibits these pieces and lectures on the topic.

Nannette earned her BS in 1975 and M.Ed. in 1984 from Towson University, Towson, MD, where she majored in Art Education and Sculpture. While researching her master's thesis, she acquired the data-gathering skills needed to write four books and lecture about Promoting Fine Art. Her lectures and workshops motivate artists, and are sponsored by universities, arts agencies, and art organizations from Connecticut to Florida.

Promoting Art with Integrity is her newest book, dealing with the policies, practices, and procedures of art galleries, arts councils, and art organizations. Her experience in retail sales, which included many how-to-sell seminars, ultimately led her to realize that mainstream sales-training techniques could be used to sell her sculpture. Nannette's Five Steps of Promotion combine her sales training with her knowledge of the art community. She self-publishes, -promotes, and -sells Promoting Art with Integrity and has been successful in reaching many artists, arts councils, colleges, museums, and libraries throughout the USA. She uses the Internet as her main promotional tool and follows her own marketing advice.

For over 25 years, Nannette has volunteered her time to help artists in Maryland's visual arts community. As a member of the following groups, she gradually became an active voice for artists.

Artists Equity Association’s Maryland Chapter (AEA). During her presidency, she formed a consortium of Maryland’s art organizations in an effort to band together and make positive changes for artists within the community. One important step was the Resource Arts Tent at Baltimore’s Artscape ‘95. Nannette lobbied for a  local arts-organization tent so art groups could distribute their literature to the public. Once approved, she  designed, organized, scheduled, and executed the undertaking. Due to the positive feedback, the Resource Arts Tent was incorporated into the budget for Artscape ‘96; though the tent-size has been reduced through the years, the Resource Arts Tent is still part of Artscape.

Nannette is a charter board member of, and assisted in drafting the by-laws for, Sculptors Inc., Maryland Artists Equity Foundation (MAEF), and Maryland Lawyers for the Arts (also testified in Annapolis, to the State legislature, on behalf of artists).

 
   2006 - studio, Pikesville, MD


1994 - Mill River Gallery, Ellicott City, MD


1988 - Lyric Opera House, MD


1983 - studio, Towson University, MD