Nancy Nesvet

Nancy Nesvet is a Curator, Arts Writer and Artist based in Bethesda, Maryland. As National Arts Writer/ Correspondent for Artscope Magazine, she has covered International and Domestic Arts Fairs, Biennales/Biennials and Triennials from Basel and Venice to New York, Cleveland and DC and regularly reviews gallery exhibitions and conducts artist interviews for publication.  Her Business of Art column is widely read and trusted; her views on the future of art enthusiastically embraced by her readers. She also has written for Harper’s Bazaar Arabia and essays in catalogues for her own curated exhibits, and for Roya Khadjavi Projects in New York.

With a BA in art history, MFA in studio art and theory, and educated at the environmental design program at Parsons School of Design,  she has taught Curation as a visiting lecturer at University of Massachusetts/Lowell, painting and drawing at Brandeis University and taught MFA students in a six week alumni teaching residency at Maine College of Art, as well as  privately teaching painting in Maryland.  Nancy was chosen twice for funded residencies at Vermont Studio Center and at Pearson Legacy Gallery in Deer Isle, Maine.

Nancy is the Head Curator at the Palestine Museum US in Connecticut where she oversees programming for weekly artists’ talks online, a film program and speakers who employ art and creativity to make a better world.  In this position, she is most interested in art that promotes social justice for all.

She shows her environmental painting and photography at Zenith Gallery in DC and at Light Street Gallery, Baltimore, believing that we must honor and care for Mother Earth as well as each other.