About the Artist
Nancy Meagher
Resume and exhibitions
Nancy Meagher
28 Arbor Way, Amherst, MA 01002 (413)-687-3386
Resume:
Member, Gallery A3, a small cooperative art gallery in Amherst MA. 2014 to present.
1994- 2013 Art Specialist for Gill Montague Regional School District.
1980- 1982 Boston Museum of Fine Arts developed and taught Art Classes in the Galleries focused on the Museum’s collection.
1980- 1987 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Developed and taught a Multi – Cultural Education Program between the museum and three Boston Public Schools. Coordinated gallery visits.
Education
Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Painting, Sculpture, Theater 1978.
Lesley College Graduate School Master’s in Education; Integrated Arts in Education, Elem. Ed. K-8, 1980.
Exhibits/Projects
April 2025. “Closed and Wide-Open Spaces”, a solo exhibit of 18 oil on canvas paintings at Gallery A3, Amherst, MA.
8th Fabos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning; Healing Place and Planet, University of Massachusetts;April 12, 2025.
Presented along with seven collaborators on our work related to the Mill River Greenway Initiative. Displayed artwork created by Anne T. Dunphy School third graders, Williamsburg, MA. and their drawings and poetry related to the Mill River Flood of 1874. Projected a three-minute clip from Millicent and the Day it Rained Buttons, a Mill River Fish Tale.
October/November 2024 Northampton Senior Center, Mill River Flood children's book original drawings; "Millicent and the day it Rained Buttons, a Mill River Fish Tale."
October 2024 Hosmer Gallery, Forbes Library, Preparatory drawings/images for community mural, " Action; A History of Florence."
September/October 2024 member, six-women writing group, "Women of Words" Art/ Writing exhibit Pelham Library, Pelham MA.
September 2024 Poetry Chapbook; Morning After Several days of Rain
June 2024 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, FAWC, Summer Project Resident, Painting/ Writing.
2022 -2024 Historic Northampton; Mill River Flood 150 Commemoration Planning Committee. Developed an interactive educational program utilizing artifacts from the Williamsburg Historical Society for third graders at Anne T. Dunphy School, Williamsburg. Curated an art exhibit for the MRF150 event at Meekins Children's Library, Williamsburg.
2023 Visual Resource Stewardship Conference November 2023; “Exploring Multi-Sensory Landscapes.”
Presented along with Mill River Greenway Initiative (MRGI), Landscape Architects, Educators, Filmmaker, Authors, Artists, Storytellers, Dancer, Baker, Musicians, in the creation of a 25-minute film of the Mill River as a community resource for enrichment. Argonne National Laboratory Lemont, IL.
2022 - 2024 Design Team member for "Action; A History of Florence" mural, Florence MA.
Researched/designed the "Northampton Association of Education and Industry" Silk Mill building and the "Florence Manufacturing/ Pro- Brush Company" Mill drawings, in the preparation for the creation of a Community Mural project.
Gallery A 3, June 2023, “Emily Dickinson's Ghosts"; Laura Holland / Nancy Meagher.
Holland presents handmade accordion books, and Meagher explores sculpture and oil on canvas paintings of the poet and her brothers’ homes.
Image gallery
:Laura Holland and Nancy Meagher
Amherst Media interview for "Millicent and the day it Rained Buttons, a Mill River Fish Tale";
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yzqBso1vZ9s
WHMP 101.5 FM/1400AM News, Information and The Arts; The Afternoon Buzz, 9/26/2022
Interview with hosts, Buz Eisenberg and Dan Torres.
WHMP
Gallery A3 Solo Exhibit; "Cold Water and Millicent", Gallery A3, Amherst MA., May 5 - 28.
Gallery hours, Thursday- Sunday 3-7 pm.
Amherst Cultural Council grantee for; Millicent and the Day it Rained Buttons, a Mill River Fish Tale by Nancy Meagher 2022.
Book is available through Silver St. Media, Agawam, MA. ;
Complimentary video of "Millicent and the Day it Rained Buttons, a Mill River Fish Tale", by Nancy Meagher. Enjoy!
https://vimeo.com/reelife/review/726098185/17d5244821
Gallery A3 Women of Words, (W.O.W.) six women artist/writers: INTERWOVEN, March 2022.
Gallery A3 group exhibits during the Pandemic.
Amherst History Museum, Summer 2019, " Emily in Amethyst "
Exhibited an oil on canvas collection of the Dickinson mansions and the home of Mabel Loomis Todd. The paintings complimented an exhibit of Mabel Loomis Todd's clothing, including a purple velvet embroidered skirt and jacket designed and created by this striking woman who edited Emily's poems after the poet's passing.
Gallery A3 , Amherst, MA , two person exhibit titled, "Wind, Trees , Water" , oil paintings inspired by two local ponds. Meagher poem, " A Standstill Adventure " complimented the heavily scored palette knife paintings.
Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA, December 2018.
Meagher's oil paintings of the Dickinson mansions were exhibited throughout both historic homes for Emily’s 188 th birthday Party.
Meagher's poem, “Gossipy Foyers, Chatty Chairs” complimented the heavily scored paintings of Austin Dickinson 's Parlor and foyer.
Amherst Works, Amherst, MA “Peaches and Pools", still life oil paintings and swimming pool paintings, June, July, August 2018.
Leeds Historic Signage Day, Leeds, MA May 2018.
As part of Leeds Civic Association Historic Signage Installation celebration, developed Children/ Community art activity, " Create a Mill River Necklace" and installed large Mill Girl drawings in an exhibit titled, " Leeds Unbuttoned" at the Leeds, Dimock Mansion.
Amherst College, Frost Library Mezzanine Gallery,” Enormous Oaks Float over the Quad” landscapes, poems, and Dickinson Mansions, June July August 2018.
Gallery A3, Two Person Exhibit, “The Night Was Wide,” oil paintings of Amherst College Quad and the Dickinson Homestead, March 2018.
Gallery A3, Two Person Exhibit “BLOOM 2”, oil on canvas landscape and still life paintings, June 2017.
Gallery A3, Three Person Exhibit "BLOOM”, oil on canvas paintings and mosaic installations, June 2016.
Amherst College, CHI Center, Emily Dickinson’s Birthday Party. Featured Artist Speaker, December 2016.
Historic Northampton Museum featured artists, “Northampton Unbuttoned”, ebony pencil drawings of clothing worn by the Leeds, Mill Girls, inspired from Historic Northampton digital collection, and vintage button/mosaic table lamp creations, November 2016.
Amherst College, Frost Library Mezzanine Gallery, "Gossipy Foyers, Chatty Chairs” oil paintings of Dickinson Homestead, 2016
Emily Dickinson Museum featured "Art Walk" exhibiting artist, oil paintings and drawings of the Dickinson Homestead, May 2016.
Gallery A3, Amherst, MA, two-person exhibit, “Unwavering”, oil paintings of the interiors of the Dickinson Homestead, February 2015.
Hope and Feathers Framing Gallery, “Local Texture” oil on canvas paintings of local landscapes, solo exhibit, February 2015.
Gallery A3, Amherst, MA, two-person exhibit, “Water, Two Visions”, oil on canvas paintings of Leverett Pond and Puffers Pond, February 2014.
Hope and Feathers Framing Gallery, “Finding Green in Winter" oil on canvas paintings of winter landscapes, solo exhibit, February 2014.
Author of the following works:
“The Fish in the Polka Dot Dress”, published by Connecticut River Conservancy 2013
“A is for Avenue A," the ABC’s of a River Town" 2014
Author and illustrator of “Millicent and the Day it Rained Buttons, a Leeds Mill River Fish Tale," 2018
Illustrator for, "The Book of Linguini, A Romance Set In the Borough of Queens", by Julian M. Olf, April 2020.
