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Nancy Stevens
Following high school graduation, I was invited to study with Arthur Lismer, who taught me how to see and how to draw. Following formal art training at Mount Allison University, graduating with a BFA in 1956, I was employed by CBC-TV as a graphics artist and learned the importance of communicating information creatively.
After marriage, while raising two daughters and continuing to work part-time as a commercial artist, I returned to painting and began exhibiting locally and regionally and eventually nationally in private and public galleries. Exhibitions included HORIZON PAINTINGS at the AGNS, IN TRANSIT at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, PATHWAYS at the St. FX Art Gallery and THE LIRI VALLEY PAINTINGS at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery honouring the sacrifice and memory of Canadian soldiers who fought in the WWII Italian Campaign.
More recently, TREES FOR LIFE, 10 paintings highlighting the dominant species in the Acadian Forest, and a plea for understanding the effects of climate change, were exhibited in 2021 at the Art Centre, University of New Brunswick. While making art, I had a 15-year career teaching drawing and painting, creative and critical thinking at NSCAD and ST. FX University.
Following the lengthy illness and recent death of my husband, I returned to live in Halifax. Making art and making a life has been an ongoing inquiry.
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