SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 Solo Exhibition Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
2008 Artists of Zea Mays Printmaking Wunderarts, Amherst, MA
2008-10 Field Report: Members of the Boston Printmakers Gordon College, Gloucester, MA and traveling through 2010
2007-08 Beyond the Book 2 Boston Public Library, Honan-Allston branch, Boston, MA
2007 BookMarks ZMP (artists' books exhibition) Zea Mays Printmaking Gallery, Florence, MA juror: Ruth Rogers, Wellesley College
2007 Growth: Prints from the Archive Zea Mays Printmaking Gallery, Florence, MA
2007 Works on Paper LynnArts, Lynn, MA
2007 Fine Lines and Shadows Zea Mays Printmaking Gallery, Florence, MA two-person exhibition
2005-06 Artists' Books Zea Mays Printmaking Gallery, Florence, MA
2005 Fine Art Faculty Chester College Gallery, Chester, NH
2005 Opaque / Transparent Ahimsa Gallery, Boston, MA three-person exhibition
2005 Merge Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
2004 Pause New England School of Art & Design, Suffolk Univ., Boston, MA four-person exhibition
2004 Red Nutting Gallery, Chester College of New England, Chester, NH
2003 Small, Smaller, Smallest Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 Cross Cultural Digital Art Exhibition NACC, Bethlehem, PA
2002 Elements ArtSpace Gallery, Maynard, MA four-person exhibition
2002 Woman Image: Image of Women The Gallery at Dodd's Hall, Univ. of New Haven, CT
2002 Artists and Poets Carney Gallery, Regis College, Weston, MA four pairs of collaborating artists and poets
2002 National Exhibit Artists' Museum, Washington, DC
2001 Nancy Diessner: An Artist's Books Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY solo show
2001 Seeing / Reading Between the Lines Acton Memorial Library, Acton, MA solo show
2001 Body Conscious: Figure & Gesture in Photography and Printmaking Gibbs Gallery, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA
2001 Sightings and Stanzas: Artist and Poet Collaboration White Pines College Gallery, Chester, NH
2001 Beauty Lowell Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA juror: Elaine Scarry, Harvard University
2001 Digital Art Beecher Center for Technology in the Arts, Butler Institute for American Art, Youngstown, OH
2000 Bosch, Diessner, Dudley, Drago White Pines College Gallery, Chester, NH
2000 The Book as Art: Artist's Books in New England Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
2000 Digital States Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
2000 New England/New Talent Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2000 Where Are the Books? Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
2000 Book Arts Artist Image Resource Center, Pittsburgh, PA
1999 Faculty Show Winfisky Gallery, Salem State College, Salem, MA
1999 New Faculty Show Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
1999 Libros de Artistas (Artists' Books) Libreria Pegaso, Casa Lamm, Mexico City, Mexico
1999 National Print Show Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA curator: Sidney Tillim
1999 Collaborations Center Space Gallery, Easton, PA
1998 Invisible and Speechless: Books and Images Tomkins Gallery,Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA solo show
1998 25 x 25 Borders Books (The Print Center), Philadelphia, PA
1998 Small Works Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
1998 Text no Text: Mallarmé's Effect on Artists Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
1998 Silicone Intaglio Manhattan Graphics, New York, NY curators: Nathan and Heather Arak-Kanofsky
1998 26th Biennial Juried Show Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
1997 The Imaginary City Manhattan Graphics, New York, NY curator: David Kiehl (curator of prints, Whitney Museum)
1997 The River as Muse Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
1994 Here and There Frank Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA two-person exhibition
1993 Four Artists Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
1993 Nancy Diessner/Ken Michael Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA two-person exhibition
1993 Selections from the Fleisher Challenge Exhibition Fleisher Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
1991-1993 Hard Choices/Just Rewards Traveling show of recipients of PA Council on the Arts' grant. Locations included: University of the Arts, Philadelphia; Blair Art Museum; University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh; Everhart Museum, Scranton
1992 Art Around the Edges Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Nancy Diessner: New Work Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA solo show
1990 A Decade in the Marketplace Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
1988 AIM Exhibition Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
EDUCATION
1983 Hunter College, New York, NY MFA in Painting and Sculpture
1980 Bennington College, Bennington, VT BA in Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking
1979 Saint Martins College of Art, London Study abroad
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2000-present Associate Professor, Chair, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies, Chester College of New England, Chester, NH
Developed non-toxic Printmaking Studio; teach Printmaking, Book Arts, Interdisciplinary courses, and team-teach Primary Studios
1999-2000 Lecturer:
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA: Foundation Department--Images and Ideas, Tech Studio
Regis College, Weston, MA: Art Department-Art History courses; Life Long Learning Book Arts for Educators
Salem State College, Salem, MA: Art Department-Color and Design
1993-1999 Assistant Professor of Art, Art Department, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
Developed Printmaking Studio; taught Printmaking, Book Arts, Art on the Edge, and Art History courses, also team-taught Freshman Seminar in Writing, Junior Seminar in Ethics, and a Biology and Art course
SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS,
MEMBERSHIPS, AND PUBLICATIONS
Member of Boston Printmakers, Bromfield Gallery, and Zea Mays Printmaking studio
2007 Work included in Zea Mays Printmaking Flat File Project, Florence, MA
2002 Work included in the Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2001 Photos Figure into Body of Work by Mary Sherman, Boston Sunday Herald, June 17, 2001
2000-2001 Book Production Grant, Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, Grant to produce an edition of one of my books, A Book of Myths and Fates
1999 Artist featured in Silicone Intaglio Workbook by Nathan Kanofsky and Heather Arak
1997 Artist's Fellowship, Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
Residency grant for November 1997
1997 Curator's First Place Award, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
Curator: Nancy Einreinhofer
1994-1997 Faculty Development Grant Awards (Cedar Crest College)
Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC, NY ('97)
Center for Book Arts, NYC, NY ('95 and'96)
Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, NYC, NY ('94)
1992 23rd Juried Show, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
Juried Show Award
1992 Curator's Choice. Frank B. Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
Curator: Edward Fry
1991 Pennsylvania State Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA
Individual Fellowship Grant in Visual Art
1987 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
Artist in Residency Fellowship
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Vassar College; Yale University; Wellesley College; Wesleyan University; Cleveland Institute of Art; Smith College; Virginia Commonwealth University; Bucknell University; Reed College; Califia; Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA; Eli Wiesel, NY, NY; Cedar Crest College, Cressman Library, Allentown, PA; Temple Covenant of Peace, Easton, PA; Arak-Kanofsky Studios, NJ; various private collections