BIRTHPLACE: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

EDUCATION

Philadelphia Museum of Art
University of Minnesota
Silvermine Art School, Connecticut
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
Provence, France (Salerne)
San Miguel Allende, Mexico
Tokyo, Japan
Marin School of Art, Novato, CA

STUDIED WITH THESE MASTERS

Furman Finck (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Nelson Shanks (Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art)
Charles Reid (Connecticut, Silvermine)
Ed Whitney (New York)
Morris Schubin (San Miguel Allende, Mexico)
David Laffel (Atlanta, GA)
Burt Silverman (New York)
Michael Shane Neal (Nashville, TN)
Kevin McPherson (Taos, NM)
Kuma Gai (Japan)
George Post (California)
Scott Burdick (Fredericksburg, TX Art School)
Jove Wang (Marin School of Art, Novato, CA)
Dorallen Davis/Jane Heaphy (Marin School of Art, Novato, CA)

EXHIBITS AND RECOGNITIONS

“Luxury Resort Showcase,” Baytowne Wharf, Sandestin Resort, FL
First artist from Gulf Coast to show in American Watercolor Society annual show in New York (1979)
The Truman Show starring Jim Carrey, Paramount Pictures 1997
“Women and Children” exhibit, New Jersey Arts Center, Atlantic City, NJ
“Stations of the Cross,” oils, Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church, Pensacola Beach, FL
“Jazz—Jungle Beat to the Jersey Bounce,” Schmidt’s Custom Framing and Gallery, Pensacola, FL
Pensacola Cultural Center, Pensacola, FL
Bergen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
American Watercolor Society Show, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
“Grandchildren: The Dessert of Life,” oil exhibition and reception, Seaside, FL
“Miniature” show, Seaside Gallery, FL
Ambience Gallery, Vero Beach, FL
Gallery of Art, Panama City, FL
Fairhope Eastern Shore Art Association, Fairhope, AL
Women’s Wing, Baptist Hospital, Pensacola, FL
Naval Hospital, Pensacola, FL
Judicial Center, Pensacola, FL
Florida State Capitol, Tallahassee, FL

SELECTED AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

Best of Show, Bay County Annual Art Exhibition, Panama City, FL
Best of Show, Jubilee Jam, Jackson, MS
Best of Show, Annual AAUW Art Show, Demopolis, AL
Painting chosen for American Watercolor Society Show 1979
Paint America Top 100 – Two of Nina’s paintings were chosen as finalists
Society of Master Impressionists – Inaugural National Show, Amarillo, TX
“From Life,” article in USAirways Magazine, September 2006
Nominated for Outstanding Business Woman of the Year 2007, Pensacola, FL
Artwork featured throughout the In-Room Concierge hotel room hardcover book for the Pensacola Bay area 2008
Selected to create an ornament for the 2008 White House Christmas tree
Subject of “Angels in Our Midst” segment, WEAR-TV, Pensacola, FL, January 2009

MEMBERSHIPS

The Portrait Society of America (alumni)
Oil Painters of America
Portrait Society of America
Pensacola Plein Aire Artists (founder)