Resume
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Curriculum Vitae
Selected Exhibitions
2011
40 Under 4, Elisa Contemporary Art, Riverdale, NY
Selections from the Collection, Nieman Marcus, Short Hills, NJ
Arts Unbound Invitational, Arts Unbound Gallery, West Orange, NJ 2010
40 Under 4, Elisa Contemporary Art, Riverdale, NY
GAS Holiday, GAS Gallery, Maplewood, NJ
Pulp, Arts Guild of New Jersey, Rahway, NJ
Pierro Downtown, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2009
Rare Pleasures, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
Next Post, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ
Bits and Pieces, Domarecki Gallery — Columbia HS, Maplewood, NJ
BCIE Annual Exhibition, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ
Art Connections 5, George Segal Gallery — Montclair State University, Newark, NJ
2008
Boson Exotic, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ
What’s New, Montclair Public Museum, Montclair, NJ
Currents, Ben Shahn Galleries, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
2007
Sanctuary, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ
Nowhere Here, two-person exhibition with Cheol Yu Kim, Mikail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, NJ
Essex Exposed, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ
Daylight Savings, City Without Walls/Seton Hall Law School Gallery, Newark, NJ
Viz, Trans-Genre Event, with poet Jerome Rothenberg, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
What’s New, Montclair Public Library, Montclair, NJ
Dynamic Exchange: Collaborative Works of Jerome Rothenberg, UCSD Library, San Diego, CA
2006
Surface Tension: New Paintings by Nancy Tobin, ArtSpace 129, Montclair, NJ
Surface Tension: Works on Paper by Nancy Tobin, Block Gallery, Montclair, NJ
NurtureArt: Nurturing the Edge, Cue Foundation, New York, NY
Visible Word, The Center for Performing Arts at DeBaun, Hoboken, NJ
Winter Salon, ArtSpace 129, Montclair, NJ
2005
Circular Logic, The Rosalind & Alfred Lippman Gallery, Short Hills, NJ
Red, Glen Ridge Women’s Club, Glen Ridge, NJ
As She Sees It: 8 Women Artists, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
Artworks! Arts in the Marketplace, Arts Council of Morris, Florham Park, NJ
Infiltrations, 1978 Maplewood Arts Center, Maplewood, NJ
2004
Focus on Collage, four-person exhibition, ArtSpace 129, Montclair, NJ
Self-Portrait 2004, Northwest Cultural Council, Barrington, IL
Remembrances of Things Past, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
10th Annual Gulf Coast National, Texas Artists Museum, Port Arthur, TX
Pareidolia, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
The Odds, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Autumn in America, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY
Contemporary Abstracts, Alameda Art Center, Alameda, CA
Compact Competition, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Portal Spaces Exhibit, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2003
12th National Juried Show, Art Center of Northern New Jersey, New Milford, NJ
2000
Taking the Leap, Heritage Square, Emeryville, CA
Collections
Jane Voorhees Zimmereli Art Museum at Rutgers University
Hunterdon Museum of Art
Bergen Museum
Jersey City Museum
Montclair Art Museum
Morris Museum
Newark Museum
Noyes Museum of Art
Art Museum at Princeton University
New Jersey State Museum
Patricia Bell Collection
Education
1994-1998 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1978-1981 Kendall College of Art, Grand Rapids, MI
Publications
The New York Times Local/West of Chelsea, writter for weekly feature; Includes interviews and profiles of local artists and art professionals, 2009-2010
Three Poems (book of paintings and poems with poet Jerome Rothenberg), published by Hawk’s Well Press, 2007
Event, a Trans-Genre Anthology: (highlighting collaboration with poet Jerome Rothenberg), edited by Roxanne Power Hamilton, published by Viz. Inter-Arts, 2007
Art Start (instructional guide for Quiltage collage technique), written and illustrated by Nancy Tobin, Quiltage Press, 2003
Illustrated five highly acclaimed children’s educational books: Fraction Fun David A. Adler, illustrated by Nancy Tobin, Holiday House, 1996 Shape Up! David A. Adler, illustrated by Nancy Tobin, Holiday House, 1998 How Tall, How Short, How Faraway David A. Adler, illustrated by Nancy Tobin, Holiday House, 1999 Drip, Drop: How Water Gets to Your Tap Barbara Seuling, illustrated by Nancy Tobin, Holiday House, 2000 Flick A Switch: How Electricity Gets to Your House Barbara Seuling, illustrated by Nancy Tobin, Holiday House, 2003
Bibliography
The Art of the Party, Park Place Magazine, by Susan Brierly, Mar/Apr 2010 Star Ledger,
South Orange Art Collector’s Home is a Visual Feast, February 18, 2010
The Montclair Times, Winter Salon: Women’s Work, March 16, 2006
Star Ledger, Women’s Issues as Artists See Them, by Dan Bischoff, April 10, 2005
Maplewood Matters, Patchwork Masterpieces, Fall 2003
Affiliations
Board of Directors Communications Coordinator, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY
City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
Book Arts Roundtable, Baird Center, South Orange, NJ
Viridian Print Studio, Livingston, NJ
Awards
New Jersey Print and Paper Fellowship 2008 Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Liquitex Artist of the Month, September 2007
Award of Excellence: Contemporary Abstracts, Alameda Art Center
Third place: 10th Annual Gulf Coast National, Texas Artists Museum
Workshops and Classes
Two-Color Solar-Plate Printmaking, Viridian Print Studio, Livingston, NJ Trace Monoprints, Viridian Print Studio, Livingston, NJ
Quiltage: Creating Your Own Masterpiece (one-day workshops for middle-school children)
Eye-Popping Art: Exploring the World of Three-Dimensional Art (one-semester curriculum for grade-school classes)
Other Professional Experiences
2003-Present Owner of Quiltage, LLC (publishing and educational company) I coined the term “Quiltage” for the process I use to create collages that repurpose artwork using techniques reminiscent of quilt-making. I developed a teaching philosophy and instructional manual that bring out the artist in everyone and include them in creating fine art.
1986-2003 Owner of TobinDesign (graphic-design and illustration studio) I provided creative solutions for the publishing, corporate and product markets. TobinDesign clients included Herman Miller, Steelcase, Random House, Scholastic and Hasbro Toys.
1983-1986 Senior Art Director, Johnson and Dean, Grand Rapids, MI
1982-1983 Art Director, Sefton Associates, Grand Rapids, MI 1981-1982 Art Director, Grand Rapids Magazine, Grand Rapids, MI