Biography

Nancy holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Arts from Stanford University. She has been a member of the arts faculties of New York University, Foothill College and San Jose State and has been an invited lecturer at Stanford and at Wesleyan universities.

She has been active in photography for seventeen years, including classes to a professional level at Foothill College. She has taken numerous workshops, including those with Ted Orland, Jerry Uelsmann, Margo Jones and Marian Patterson. She uses her middle initial, because of the proliferation of women in the arts, locally and nationally, named Nancy Cole.

Nancy's images have twice been included in the annual juried show at Palm Beach Photographic, Boca Raton, Florida ("Winter Rose" in 2002 and "Lamp Post, Prague #2" in 2001). Her prints have been shown in many corporate galleries and exhibits, among them, Becton Dickenson, Inc., Hewlett Packard Corporation, Synopsys, Aspect Communications, Harmonic Corporation and Maxtor, Inc. Her work has been twice exhibited at TheWorks, Art and Performance Gallery, San Jose and at Serra House, Stanford University, under the auspices of Women's Caucus for the Arts. "Look at You!" was the postcard image for Pacific Art League's "Fools and Jesters" show in March of 2001. Also hanging in that show was "Pierrot in Thought," upon which Judge Joan Blackmer commented, "I select this work for the emotional quality of the character created by the artist's sense of lighting. When I look at this portrait, I sense the human mystery that lies behind the painted face."