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Born in Brooklyn in 1950, Nan Hass Feldman studied art from the age of five at the
Brooklyn Art Museum, and was a competitive dance and figure roller skater.
Junior dance
champion for New York State at the age of twelve, she skated until her
fifteenth birthday, at which point she decided that she wanted to devote all
her free time and studies to art.
She received her BFA from SUNY at Buffalo. After graduation in
1972 she married
Alan Feldman, a poet and professor at Framingham (MA) State College, and
accepted an art teaching position in the Framingham public schools, leaving a year-and-a-half later when her daughter Rebecca was born. Her son, Daniel,
was born in 1976.
Even while she raised her children, Ms.
Feldman never stopped painting. When the kids were young she'd use
mediums that could be applied piecemeal, such as serigraphy, collography,
and collage so that she could pick up and put down work quickly. As her
children grew older, Feldman was able to return to paintings that required
more studio time and to resume her art studies. She
completed an MA in painting at Goddard College in 1987 and an MFA at
Vermont College in 1993.
Over the past thirty years Ms. Feldman
has had twenty-eight one or two-person shows, and received numerous awards
on the national, state, and local levels. She has also continued to teach at the Worcester Art Museum, the DeCordova Museum, and the Danforth Museum
of Art (which she helped found) as well as at Framingham State College. For the
past nine years she has also taught
painting in France, a source of
inspiration for many of her recent landscapes. Her work is represented
in numerous corporate and private collections throughout the United States,
Japan, France, Spain, England, and Sweden. |