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Nancy Blair is
both an artist and a writer. She received her BFA from Alfred
University in New York and an MFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross
School of the Arts in New Jersey. She is a past scholarship recipient,
staff member, and teaching assistant at Pilchuck, as well as a teaching
assistant at The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, and
Wheaton Village (Museum of American Glass, Millville, New Jersey). Her
work has been commissioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the
United States Olympic Equestrian Museum. Nancy has written five books
on goddess spirituality, artmaking and healing. Her recent book, Thank
You, Your Opinion Means Nothing To Me: A Year of Hot Flashes, Flash
Backs and Finding My Voice, a memoir, is published by
HarperCollinsPublishers. Her mostly narrative sculpture combines
hot-cast glass, ceramics, and found objects influenced by ancient
symbology, and personal mythology.he images I use reflect my emotions,
dreams, the natural world around me, my relationships, and a deep,
heart-felt interest in ancient art, myth and mystery. The female form,
my body, is the temple-lens through which I experience the world. It is
the basis for my work. Everything I experience, touch, pick up on the
beach, on the street, grow in my garden, gives birth to my art, all the
fragments finally becoming whole in one fiery, narrative stew.
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