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nancy lenore cook biography
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[Biography] [Gallery]
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Nancy Lenore Cook has been creating sculptures from paper since she was 3 years old.
Her grandmother folded some paper (the kind that oranges and grapefruit were wrapped in years ago)
and had her cut holes. When she opened it, it was magic. She has been cutting ever since.
Since she thinks in 3 dimensions, paper sculpture was a natural way for her to create art.
She has an Art Education background, and has had her own studio for 26 years.
Nancy is a Juried Member of the Penn. Guild Of Craftsmen, and has won
several awards in their Annual Gallery Show at Franklin and Marshall College. In 1995,
she won Juror’s Choice Award for a piece “Chesapeake”. It was also included in the River
Life Exhibit at the State Capitol in Harrisburg, Penn. ”Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder”
won an award in 1991, in the Annual Gallery Show.
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Nancy won an award in the Dimensional Illustrators Annual Competition in 1995,
and had her entry on exhibit at the Art Directors Club in New York. One of her recent
compositions,”The Awakening” was published in IRIS Magazine, University Of Virginia, in an
article on “Women and The Art Of Paper Cutting”. Her work is also included in the book
PAPER ART by Diane Maurer- Mathison . THE ART OF THE SCRAPBOOK, by Diane Maurer-Mathison,
includes an accordion – fold, Pop-Up book of Nancy’s…”Butterfly Meadow”.
THE ART AND CRAFT OF HANDMADE CARDS has a card of Nancy’s.
The latest book “PAPER IN THREE DIMENSIONS ” has some of her work, plus a pop-up garden.
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Marsh Grasses
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Irish Reverie
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Nancy’s work was included in the Women Artists Of McLean County Art Exhibit at the
McLean County Art Center. Nancy has had 6 Solo shows, Visions From The Heart, at West.
Illinois University, and Transitions at Gallery 510, Decatur, Illinois. She exhibited
a One Artist Show, April, 1999 at the David Strawn Gallery, Jacksonville, IL.
Her show Reflections at Gallery 510, Decatur, IL, was during February 2001.
A One Artist Show at Gallery 510 in June 2003. Her 6th One Artist Show was at the
Dorchester Arts Center in March 2004. In October 2003 , she won 2nd Prize in
Professional Mixed Media at the 26th Annual Chesapeake College Art Show for a paper
sculpture landscape. She has exhibited in Easton , MD with the Friday Morning Artists,
and in St. Michaels, MD with the St. Michaels Art League. Nancy won the Samuel Sands
Award at the Academy Art Museum for a sailing paper sculpture in the Annual Members
Show in 2006.
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She has exhibited with the Guild Of American Papercutters, at the Kemerer Museum Of
Decorative Arts, Bethlehem, PA; The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown MD;
Nabisco Brands Headquarters in New Jersey; Corporate Headquarters of State Farm Insurance,
Bloomington, IL; Galleries in Chicago, Wisconsin, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico,
The Interchurch Center, New York, NY, the Convention Center Seattle, Washington,
and the Willow Gallery, Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis, MD Show. The Traveling Guild
exhibit was at Gallery 510, Decatur, IL during September 1999. The Biltmore Estate
hosted the Traveling Show in November and December of 2004, November and December,
2005 and 2006. Creative Xpressions Gallery in St. Michaels MD, for the month of June, 2007.
Nancy was President of the Guild Of American Papercutters in 2001-2003.
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Shall we have Tea?
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The Awakening
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Nancy was asked to create an Angel Ornament for the White House Blue Room Tree
in 1993. It is in White House permanent collection.
A Pennsylvania native, she lived in Illinois for 13 years, where she participated
in many Juried Shows, became a Juried Member of the Illinois Artisans, Gallery 510, Decatur.
Nancy recently moved to Maryland.
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Her 4 ft x 5 ft Valentine sculpture was displayed in the Chicago Artisans Shop,
Thompson Building, Chicago, February 1998, when she was featured Artist of the Month. She
was Featured Artist Of The Month at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield, June 1998.
She recently won the Samuel Sands Award at the Academy Art Museum 2006 Members Show.
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Memberships:
- Friday Morning Artists, Easton MD
- St. Michaels Art League, St. Michaels MD
- Academy Art Museum, Easton MD
- Guild of American Papercutters, USA
- 510 On Prairie Gallery, Decatur IL
- Penna. Guild of Craftsmen, PA
- Dorchester Arts Center, Cambridge MD
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