Nancy's dream has been to retire early and devote her time to art and community service.  She retired in 2012 and has since sold commissioned painting in oil and multi-media for corporations and private individuals.  She also serves on numerous boards, having chaired, both the full board and various committees of the boards.
 
Celia Garcia Nogales is an interdisciplinary artist who focuses on printmaking, photographic and performance processes. She was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1995. In 2011 she received a full scholarship to attend United World College in Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina, an institution based on principles of cultural merging and understanding. While in Mostar, 2011-2013, she collaborated with the local volunteering network, getting involved in art workshops with Los Rosales Kindergarden, Tasovcici Refugee Camp and the town's environmental sphere. In 2012 she co-leaded a volunteer clowning group that performed in local non-for profit and cultural events. In 2013 she started her Fine Arts BFA at Ringling College of Art and Design, funded by a Davis Scholarship. That same year she was a member of ATTAC Collective, a collaborative project that executed public performances and installations. As a result of their work, the performance Your Choice was shown at the Best of Ringling show in 2014. In 2015 three of her pieces were featured at that year's Best of Ringling show. While at Ringling her work has also been shown at Two Columns Gallery in a curated show by Wassan Al Khudairi, Bamboo Scaffolding (2014), and in a collaborative installation experience, Mercury Keeps Spinning Forward (2014). Currently she is a junior majoring in Fine Arts: Printmaking at RCAD.
 
Irene Garibay (Mexico City, 1991) is currently studying her last year of Fine Arts in Sarasota, Florida at Ringling College of Art and Design with a trustee scholarship. In 2009 she attended high school with a full scholarship at the United World Colleges in Hong Kong for two years. While in Hong Kong she worked with STOP the Traffik, a global movement to prevent human trafficking. During those years she collaborated with AFESIP Cambodia (Acting for woman in distressing situations) giving art workshops for children. Between 2009- 2011 she was a member of Play Back Collective Therapy Theater, giving presentations around Hong Kong. In 2012 she lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina for six months where she practiced tango and filmmaking. In 2013 she co-led an Expanded Cinema workshop in Sarasota, Florida with presentations at Two Columns Gallery and Ringling Museum. In 2014 she created an experimental documentary with Jose Carlos Zavarse in Oaxaca, Mexico. That same year she worked as a student Director for Two Columns Gallery.  In the spring of 2015 she attended the New York Studio Residency Program under the Artistic co-Direction of William Powhida and worked as a PR and Social Media intern for A.I.R Gallery in New York.  She's had several group shows in Sarasota and New York including POTLUCK, at the NYSRP studios in Brooklyn. Also, at Two Columns Gallery in Sarasota, she was selected to exhibit at Gesticulating curated by Dan Cameron (2014), and Bamboo Scaffolding curated by Wassan Al-Khudhairi  (2014). She co-curated a group exhibition with Mexican artist Manolo Garibay titled Under Scrutiny (2014). She recently exhibited her work with David Jacaruso in a two-person show titled Tender Friction (2015) at Croslley Gallery. She's been working with (YEArts) Youth Experiencing Art for the past four years, an organization in Sarasota where she's teaches art to children.
 
Media Contacts:
Rich Schineller
rschinel@ringling.edu
941.780.8100
 
Stephanie Lederer
slederer@ringling.edu
941.309.4110

CONTACT: Rich Schineller
         rschinel@ringling.edu
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