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​Nancy Marks is a Boston-based mixed-media artist and poet with extensive background in painting, printmaking and papermaking. Specialty in arts and health, as well as using art to support community-based conversations on complex social issues. Career in public health and community engagement.  Co-founder of The Opioid Project: Changing Perceptions through Art and Storytelling** and creator of The Intimacy of Memory Initiative. **

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Honors and Commissions

First Place: Arts Advancing Social Justice: 2024 Cam Busch NOAH Arts in Health Awards for The Opioid Project: Changing Perceptions Through Art and Storytelling

Lobby Commission: Urban Analog 5'x10', 3200 Washington Street Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 

Lobby Commission: Point of Departure 4'x5', 3368 Washington Street Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 

Arts and Business Council,  Highlighted Artist pgs 30-31, Ten years of the Artist Professional Toolbox, January 2016 http://www.artsandbusinesscouncil.org/images/apt book_web.pdf

Public Art Projects

The Opioid Project: Changing Perceptions Through Art and Storytelling

The Intimacy of Memory: The Art of Loss, Love and Remembrance

Grief and Hope in the Time of Covid, Community Art in the Commons, Tufts University

Inauguration of President Kumar: Participatory Art during Inauguration Week, Tufts University

Pediatric Ceiling Art Project, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine

Adult Ceiling Art Project, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine

Fresh Art in the Operatories, Tufts School of Dental Medicine

Solo Shows

2025  Material Witness, Studio 53 Gallery, Roslindale MA

2023 Urban Abstraction, Focus RE, Boston MA

2018  Selected Works, Focus RE, Boston MA

2015  The Intimacy of Memory The Slater Concourse, Tufts University, Medford MA

2012  Urban Edge, VeeVee, Jamaica Plain MA

2012  The Power of Place, UFORGE, Boston MA

2011  New Paintings, James’s Gate, Jamaica Plain MA

2010  Urban Abstractions, Taylor House, Jamaica Plain MA

2010  Roots, Boston University Metropolitan Gallery, Boston MA

 

Two and Three-Person Exhibitions

2021  Vignettes, JP Licks, Jamaica Plain MA

2013  Construction Marks, AMP Gallery, Provincetown  MA

2011  Street Spirit/City Blues, Footlight Club, Jamaica Plain  MA

2000  Color & Contrast, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, MA

Juried Group Exhibitions

2025  Immigration: Joys and Hardships, Roslindale Library, MA

2024  Images than Words, Menino Art Center, Boston MA

2022  An Unquieted Mind, Menino Art Center, Boston MA

2022  Fay Chandler Exhibition, Emerge Boston, Boston City Hall, MA

2019  Projections, JPAA, Boston MA

2018  Fay Chandler Exhibition, Emerge Boston, Boston City Hall, MA

2017  FLUX: Six artists Respond to Uncertainty, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston  MA

2016  Chalk Lines, AMP Gallery, Provincetown  MA

2016  Fay Chandler Exhibition, Emerge Boston, Boston City Hall  MA

2016  The Boston Biennial Project

2015  Art 100 Boston, Piano Factory Gallery, Boston  MA

2015  Driven to Abstraction, Emerson Umbrella, Concord  MA

2015  Fay Chandler Exhibition, Emerge Boston, Boston City Hall  MA

2015  New England Collective VI, Galatea Gallery, Boston  MA

2015  Migration, Roxbury Community College, Roxbury  MA

2014  Violence Transformed, MA State House and USES  Boston  MA

2014  Salon 21, The Nave Gallery, Somerville  MA

2014  Art Verdure, ArtBar, The Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge  MA

2013  Jamaica Plain Artists, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center Art , Boston  MA

Additional Exhibitions

2023  Hyde Park Artist Association, Scollay Square Gallery, City Hall, Boston MA

2018  Jamaica Plain Artists, Scollay Square Gallery, City Hall, Boston MA

2016  Women Celebrate Art, Scollay Square Gallery, City Hall, Boston MA

2016  Newton Open Studios, Newton MA

2015  JPAA Show, Sotheby’s, Jamaica Plain  MA

2015  Relationship to Place, Ula’s Cafe, Jamaica Plain  MA

2014  Six Artists, Brookline Public Library, Brookline  MA

Selected Private Collections

R. Colen: Las Vegas, NV

P. Rogers, Boston, MA

L. O’Connor:  Boston, MA

Reilly/Reynolds: Boston, MA

S. Rosenfield: San Francisco, CA

Affiliations

National Organization for Arts in Health

National Center for Creative Aging

Jamaica Plain Artist Association

Roslindale Artist Association

Hyde Park Artist Association

Workshop Facilitation and Teaching

2016-present: The Opioid Project: Changing Perceptions through Art and Storytelling

2016-present: Memory Cafes for those living with Dementia

2014-present: Intimacy of Memory Workshops

2013-2018: Art Teacher: Goddard House Assisted Living, The Brookline Senior Center

2013 Expressive Art Workshops: Self Esteem Boston, MA

 

Art and Public Health Education

Creative Aging Institute, The Creative Center: Arts in Healthcare, NY

Art and Medicine Intensive, University of Florida/Shands Medical Center, Gainesville FL

Workshops at New York Expressive Arts

Artist Professional Toolbox, Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston, Boston MA

Professional Fundraising Certificate Program, Boston University MA

 

M.S. Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA

B.A.  Public Health and Art, Hampshire College, Amherst MA

 

** To Learn More about**

The Opioid Project: Changing Perceptions Through Art and Storytelling

https://www.healthstorycollaborative.org/the-opioid-project

 

 

Publications and Other Media

 

About The Opioid Project:

The Washington Post, June 14, 2023 How a new generation has changed Grief https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/06/14/grief-changing-generations/

 

KFAR, 660AM-97.5FM, May 13, 2023  Nancy Marks and The Opioid Project  https://kfarradio.com/audioarchives/MAY%2010%202023%20%20NANCY%20MARKS%20THE%20OPIOD%20PROJECT.mp3

John Lynds, The Opioid Project Comes to East Boston, Boston Times, Oct 18, 2019

 

Natick SOAR/Framingham FORCE, Video: The Opioid Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehs6grn6m4E&t=4s, Framingham Access TV, April 2019

 

UMass Medical School: Learning from The Opioid Project:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD3U-SmxNQw&t=4s

Resilient: Narratives of hope from the Boston Opioid Crisis, edited by Mimi Yen Li and Joyce Zhou,  September 2018

Graham Ambrose, Fighting the opioid crisis, one story at a time, TheBoston Globe, August 9, 2018

Julia Sarcinelli, In Fitchburg, the Art of Recovery, Fitchburg Sentinel, February, 9, 2018

Elizabeth Dobbins,'Facing Addiction' coming to Fitchburg Art Museum,  01/30/2018  http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/news/ci_31629979/facing-addiction-coming-fitchburg-art-museum

https://mng-sen.smugmug.com/Facing-Addiction-Fitchburg-Art-Museum/

Note: Press and Publications of The Opioid Project also occurred under its former name, The Intimacy of Memory Art and Storytelling Project: Reframing Loss and Overcoming Stigma in the Face of Opioid Overdose, including:

 

Deborah Becker, Turning Grief into Art after Losing a Loved one to Opioid Overdose, 90.9 WBUR    http://www.wbur.org/artery/2016/11/18/art-opioid-overdose

 

Edx, Harvard/MIT online course, The Opioid Epidemic in America https://www.edx.org/course/opioid-crisis-america-harvardx-hhp100 The Opioid Project is featured in Session 4.

 

Dr. Annie Brewster, “Art, Stories That Honor Those Who Died By Drug Overdose -- And Help Survivors Too”, WBUR Commonhealth Blog,  June 30, 2016, http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2016/06/30/overdose-art-healing Intimacy of Memory and Nancy Marks Art

About Nancy Marks' Art: 

Arts and Business Council, Highlighted Artist pgs 30-31, Ten years of the Artist Professional Toolbox, published January 2016 http://www.artsandbusinesscouncil.org/images/apt book_web.pdf

 

“The Intimacy of Memory”, Health Story Collaborative, November 2015 http://www.healthstorycollaborative.org/nancy-marks-artist-public-health-activist-and-creator-of-the-intimacy-of-memory-the-art-of-loss-love

 

Helene Ragovin, “Hidden Talents: What Remains Behind”, Tufts NOW  September 14, 2015 http://now.tufts.edu/articles/hidden-talents-what-remains-behind

 

“The Intimacy of Memory”, Psychology Tomorrow Magazine, August 2014  http://www.psychologytomorrowmagazine.com/intimacy-memory/

 

“Printmarks of My Family’s Journey”, Psychology Tomorrow Magazine, August 2013    http://www.psychologytomorrowmagazine.com/nancy-marks/

 

Helene Ragovin, “Hidden Talents: What Remains Behind”, Tufts NOW  September 14, 2015

http://now.tufts.edu/articles/hidden-talents-what-remains-behind

 

John Ruch, “JP artist creates poster to aid bombing victims”, Jamaica Plain Gazette  May 10, 2013 

http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/2013/05/10/jp-artist-creates-poster-to-aid-bombing-victims

 

“The Stroll”, (image/exhibition announcement) http://provincetownmagazine.net/pmag:28

 

“Revolver Artist-Nancy Marks”, UFORGE Gallery, Boston May 10, 2012   http://www.uforgegallery.com/2012/05/revolver-artist-nancy-marks/

 

James Morgan, “JP Artists Exhibit at the State House”, Jamaica Plain Patch, May 22, 2011  http://jamaicaplain.patch.com/articles/jamaica-plain-artists-association-exhibits-at-state-house

 

“Art Opening: Street Spirit/City Blues”, Jamaica Plain Patch,  March 20, 2011 http://jamaicaplain.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/ev--art-opening-street-spiritcity-blues

 

Sandra Storey, “Music and Art Program Thrives at B&B/Nancy Marks Opens with Urban Abstraction”   JP Gazette, November 30, 2010

 

“Emily and Nate Cozy Cocoon House Tour, Apartment Therapy”, (image) http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/emily-amp-nates-109413

 

 

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