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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