Nancy A. Nichols

EDUCATION

New England College (Formerly New Hampshire Institute of Art) July 2020

Thesis:  Searching for Beauty in the Context of Critical Illness

 New York University-Tisch School of the Arts

 BFA  1982

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ONLINE SHOWS

The Fine Art of Photography, Plymouth Center for the Arts, Plymouth, MA. 2021 Best in Show Juror: Emily B. Belz

Open, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, January 2021

Finding the Light, PhotoPlace Gallery, Juror: Laura Moya, December 2020

Critical Mass 200, Photolucida, 2020.

The Class of 2020, In the In-Between, Juror: Michael Itkoff – Co-Founder, Daylight Books, August 2020

26th Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror: Alexa Dilworth, Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA July 2020.

Storytelling in Textiles, Hosted by the Cambridge Art Association at the Boston Design Center, February 2019

Primary Source, Griffin Museum at Lafayette Place, Boston MA, October 2019

Women’s Stories Untold, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS, September 2019

AWARDS

Women’s Environmental Leadership–Honored by Hilda Solis, U. S. Secretary of Labor 2009

Honorable Mention Rachel Carson Book Award, Society of Environmental Journalists 2008

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Former Senior Editor Harvard Business Review 

Former Reporter MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour

Former Producer for PBS-TV station WHYY

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

Author Lake Effect: Two Sisters and Town’s Toxic Legacy, Island Press 2008. 

Multiple publications in assorted venues: The Atlantic.com,  Strategy & Business, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times Book Review and many others. 

RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS

 Mesa Refuge, Marion Weber Healing Arts Fellow, 2017 

Vermont Center for the Arts, 2017

Ragdale Foundation, 2016

Blue Mountain Center, 2015

LANGUAGES

Spanish–speak, read, and write with basic competence