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NANCYALLEN.jpg "Nancy Allen
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Nancy Allen Biography
I grew up in the Philadelphia - Bucks County area, in a household where education and the arts were very important. Fortunately for me, education could come in the guise of art. From early on, I had dance lessons from my mother, a former ballerina, then art lessons including drawing, painting and crafts every Saturday morning. I've always had the need to create and there was always material available to work with. Since childhood I was making something out of nothing. Found object toys, masking tape clothing for dolls, shoebox carriages, and art on paper. I spent many hours creating playthings, rather than playing.
Though I had art classes in school, I found more freedom of creativity at home. When I first was allowed to handle a knife I began to carve anything I could get my hands on. I carved wood in my teens out of what I could find. One summer while away at camp my brother found some cedar wood. It was such a beautiful, fragrant wood. When the tools cut into it, it was naturally polished. I created from life, mostly people.
I was in love with art and thinking about my future and college. I met one of my first big influences in my tenth grade art teacher, and when I asked her if she thought I could be an art major, she said "No, Nancy, you have no patience." So, two years later I enrolled in Art Education at Kutztown University, it was the only thing I could imagine doing for the rest of my life.
At Kutztown I took art education and courses in all variety of media. As a potential teacher we were exposed not only to painting and drawing, but sculpture, photography, jewelry and enameling and more. Jewelry was my passion. Most of the work I created in class was never seen by my professors, but enjoyed by my friends. Though never a student recognized for my work I did what I loved, and managed to graduate.
I found a job teaching elementary art in a Bucks County school district, and discovered a niche for my ability to create something out of nothing. Since the budget in an art room is limited, my talent was very useful. I enjoyed developing projects and testing my talent. The program I taught was multi-cultural, as I have enjoyed travel. I incorporated many ideas from these travels to foreign places, including Morocco, Egypt, Greece, France, Kenya, Mexico, England, Peru and Bolivia as well as other countries. I spent a summer in Italy studying in Florence and living like a student.
I always had a studio in my home, and continued to work in precious metals creating jewelry using fabricating and casting techniques. I also took courses at a variety of colleges with metal courses, including Tyler School of Art, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Vermont, to name a few. Though I belong to several craft guilds and have shown in some local galleries, including Green and Green now in
Lambertville, Topeos in New Hope, Gallery 500 in Jenkintown, and presently at Sabine Rose Gallery in Doylestown, I've not pursued the exhibiting side of art until recently. Since my grades were never that great, I guess I never was comfortable promoting myself.
Bucks County Community College has afforded me wonderful opportunities in continued study and the interaction of other students and faculty. I've taken extensive jewelry classes with some wonderful teachers. When I saw a class offered in stained glass, a new infatuation was born, and continues to wage a tug of war with my creative desires. I discovered the beauty of light and color in glass. I worked in glass for several years creating pictures in glass, but got to a point when the glass by itself was not enough and I wanted more detail. I began doing painting on glass, which requires kiln firing. I recreated a Barnum and Baily circus poster in glass with painted animals, after a trip to Peru, more animals.
I began to explore other aspects of kiln fired glass. Classes with Horizons, a craft school, introduced me to the possibilities of the kiln and fusing. Once again, the glass was not enough, and I started to decorate with surface textures and patterns before using it, this required additional firing. Each plate I produce now may have been fired 3 to five times to achieve the desired goal.
I'm influenced by patterns in nature and in works by Matisse and Gustav Klimt, and aware of spacing and size relationships in Mondrian. The excitement of working in color and texture that can be created in glass is fascinating to me. Working out designs can involve the skills of jewelry making, painting and design to achieve the desired effects. The thrill of opening the kiln to see the richness of the colors and the depth created in the glass is wondrous.
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