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Nina Fletcher was born and brought up in the in Boston area. After a liberal arts education, she lived in Africa for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer, then migrated to Berkeley, California where she became a Nurse Practitioner for several years. Returning to New England, she changed course. Following a long and latent passion, she went to art school at Massachusetts College of Art, where she majored in painting, studying under the late Rob Moore.
Armed with a BFA she made art and pursued a variety of related endeavors. She became an art critic for the alternative weekly, Worcester Magazine. She owned and operated a small neon sign business. She started the Blackstone Print Studio, an atelier created to provide state of the art facilities to local artists and to introduce the medium to interested newcomers. There she conducted and arranged workshops and classes and organized annual exhibits highlighting the work of the Blackstone Printers.
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NINA FLETCHER
2 Main Street, 3rd Floor
Gloucester, MA 01930
508-479-9240
email: nina@ninafletcher.org
ninafletcher.org
education
1990 BFA Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, graduation with distinction
1980 MSN Women’s Health Care, University of California, San Francisco, magna cum laude
exhibitions
2024 Ceres Gallery, New York City, NY, feminist, non-profit gallery for contemporary women’s art. “Nina Fletcher: Inside Out”
2024 Ceres Gallery, New York City, NY, Group show “Raising Women’s Voices”
2021 Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA, “(Re)Sisters: Speaking Up, Speaking Out”
2018-19 MassArt Auction participant
2017 Flat Rocks Gallery, Gloucester, MA, “Final Show”
2016 Duxbury Art Complex, Duxbury, MA, “Double Vision”
2016 Flat Rocks Gallery, Gloucester, MA “Eliptic”
2014 Flat Rocks Gallery, Gloucester, MA, “Persona”
2013 Worcester State University, Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery, Worcester, MA, Solo Exhibition “Nina Fletcher: No Limits”
2011 Fuller Art Museum, Framingham, MA, “Annual Juried Show”
2011 Shoe Factory Art Coop, Rochester, NY
2010 Mass General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA, “Illuminations”
2009 Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA, “Alchemy”
2009 Tri-County Arts Council, Cobbleskill, NY, “National Small Work Exhibit”
2009 Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA, “The Perfect Fit–Shoes Tell the Story”
2008 Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, “30th Annual Juried Show”
2008 Worcester State College, Worcester, MA, Visiting Artist and Speaker
2007 Clark University, Schiltkamp Gallery, Worcester, MA, “MisCreated”
2006 ArtsWorcester, Worcester, MA, “Wired”, curated by Susan Stoops, Contemporary Curator of Worcester Art Museum. Second Place: Best of Show
2005 New England BioLabs, Beverly, MA, CEO purchased “Wired” artwork
2003 Blackstone Printers at Brickbottom, Somerville, MA, “proGLYPHic”, an exhibition of prints by five artists including two collaborative installations
2003 Gallery at Boston University, Boston, MA, “North American Print Biennial”, curated by Clifford S. Ackley, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2002 Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, “What Inspires Us – An Invitational Expedition of Contemporary Art by Women”
2001 The Artists Foundation at The Distillery, Main Gallery, South Boston, MA, “Too Close to Call” Work by Nina Fletcher, curated by Kathy Bitetti
2000 Ruby Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “Armed and Dangerous”
2000 Clark University Gallery, Worcester, MA “Fairytales of Domesticity”, exploration of the relationships that exist between women and cultural fantasies about home life
1999 Fletcher Priest Gallery, Worcester, MA, “One Thousand and Under”
1999 Gallery Szent-Gorgyi, Falmouth, MA, Group Show, Multimedia Art Works
1998 Heywood Gallery and Artists Association, Worcester, MA, “Best of Show at Northeast Open” curated by Donna Harkavy, former Curator of Contemporary Art, Worcester Art Museum
1998 AAA Gallery at the Heywood Gallery, Worcester, MA, “My Pocketbook, My Self — 10 Variations”, new work by Nina Fletcher
1998 ArtsWorcester, Worcester, MA, “Biennial”, Honorable Mention
1997 The Artists Foundation Gallery at The Distillery, South Boston, MA, “Worcester Exchange Part One”
affiliations
1993-present, Art for Aid’s Sake, Participant and Volunteer
2017-present, Massachusetts College of Art Foundation, Board of Directors
1995-2000 Heywood Gallery and Artist’s Cooperative, Worcester, MA, Co-Director and Member
employment
1995-2022 Blackstone Print Studio, Worcester, MA, Owner and Operator of a fine art printing facility available for rental to artists. Curator of six print exhibitions of work by the Blackstone Printers. Taught, organized and hosted numerous workshops and classes in various printmaking methods.
1995-2005 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, Printmaking Instructor
1996-2000 Worcester Magazine, Worcester, MA, Freelance Writer and Art Reviewer
1995-1998 The Neon Jungle, Worcester, MA, Owner and Operator of a commercial neon sign company
1973–1987 RN and Nurse Practitioner, Berkeley, CA
Her own work continued to develop, moving between two and three dimensions in a variety of media including old clothes, shoes, roofing lead, aluminum screening, wire, bones, nails, pins, buttons, Kleenex, to name a few. Within this array of materials, her art is about the transformation of the commonplace — the retelling of those histories into a more modern parable.
Much of her art draws on the human body and its many layers. Her background in medicine remains an important reference for her inquiries into the body and beyond – namely, into that which makes us human.
Nina lives and works on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, north of Boston.