About Nina Weiss

SUMMARY

Hometown: Great Neck, New York

Education: Pre-college study at Rhode Island School of Design and the Art Students' League of New York; Bachelor of Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art; K-12 Art Education Certification, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Interests: Prismacolor, Visual Intelligence, Peninsula School of Art, Editions Limited Gallery, Button-Petter Gallery, Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, Res Artist, Worldwide Network of Artist Residencies, Industry of the Ordinary, Illinois State Museum, One Sixtieth of a Second, Chicago Art Leasing LLC, Evanston Art Center, Northshore Art League, Park District of Highland Park, Illinois Artisans Program, Illinois State Museum, Cool Globes - Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet, Fine Art America, Biking, Travel, Science & Psychology of Color, Osio-Brown Editions

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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
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Nina Weiss is a nationally recognized artist who has been painting and drawing the landscape for over 25 years. She is the Founder of Art Endeavors, a Chicago-based art education organization dedicated to teaching and helping others to maximize their abilities in and enjoyment of art. She has been written about in the Chicago Tribune, The Daily Herald and North Shore Magazine. Artist's Residencies include the Ragdale Foundation, Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her current teaching appointments include Columbia College Chicago, the Evanston Art Center, the NorthShore Art League; and the Chicago Botanic Gardens. Nina teaches workshops throughout the Midwest, and travels to Europe every summer to conduct her European Landscape Painting & Drawing Workshops. She exhibits widely in solo and group shows throughout the Midwest. Nina's own work can be seen at www.ninaweiss.com. In her life away from art, Nina relishes her time with family; her husband, Evan, and their beautiful daughter.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

My study and love of art has bee nina weiss in front of big bens on the bog road n a life-long passion. I grew up outside New York City and was lucky to be able to take advantage of Manhattan's cultural offerings. Some of my earliest memories are from this time; pausing on the ramp at the Guggenheim Museum; pondering an abstract painting in a gallery on Madison Ave, and playing with the transparencies in an early color wheel. My parents encouraged my artistic exploration by providing me with plenty of art supplies; including rolls of thin white paper from the examining tables in my fathers' medical center. We drew murals on the floor with crayons. Later, I spent afternoons after highschool drawing happily at my desk; copying master works and illustrations. Eventually I turned my attention to creating huge copies in oil of my favorite rock albums.

I signed up for my first painting lesson at age eleven at the Roslyn School of Painting on Long Island, and at age thirteen began taking the train into Manhattan every Saturday to study life drawing at the Art Student League. I attended a pre-college summer session at the Rhode Island School of Design; and then skipped my last year of high school to begin my freshman year at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia.

I have always had strong reactions to color; and drew inspiration from hours of study of the Expressionist Movement. I have melded this love of emotive color with landscape as subject matter. When I moved from the East Coast to the Midwest to attend Graduate School; the horizons of the Midwestern landscape inspired me. I began biking with my camera; taking photos for use and reference in my studio. Travel is the twin passion accompanying my lust for landscape. Travel presents me with new landscapes and opportunities.

Now; as artist, teacher, mother and wife; I am even more excited than ever to follow and pursue my artistic path. Thanks for coming with me!