Nan Ring is an art educator and visual artist. She has over 15 years of experience teaching art to students of all ages in both public and private schools. She holds an MFA in painting and teaches art fundamentals, art history, and environmental art classes. Nan Ring also has an established career as a visual artist, having participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and artist residency programs around the country.

1. Nan Ring
323 Gregory Avenue West Orange, NJ 07052, (973) 464-5043,nancy.ring@verizon.net
www.nanring.com
“Leaf Children”, tempera on paper, First Grade, 72” x 216”, 2012
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
The Pingry School Upper School
• 2016 to present, Art Educator, The Pingry School, Basking Ridge, NJ
• Teach 2-D and 3-D art fundamentals to high school students, grade 9 and 10.
• Teach “Art and Nature” environmental art class to Middle School students grade 8.
• Create unique curriculum to teach visual art and art history.
• Serve as Gallery Education Coordinator for school art gallery.
• Design and maintain art integration website for school art gallery.
• Serve on Multi-Cultural Team.
• Curate and install student art exhibitions.
South Orange Maplewood School District K - 5
• 2014 – 2016 Art Teacher, Seth Boyden School, Maplewood, NJ , grades K – 5.
• Teach studio art materials and technique to 560 students in 26 classes weekly at Title 1
School using innovative individualized and differentiated instruction
• Create unique curriculum such as outdoor earthworks to teach visual art and integrate art
into academics
• Create sustainable projects using recycled materials to raise awareness about responsibility
to the environment
• Synthesize contemporary artists and artists from history with students’ lives to keep art
alive and relevant.
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2. • Curate and present student work for annual school-wide art exhibit encompassing three
floors of building and Board of Education Gallery exhibit.
• Research and implement student art opportunities beyond the district such as museum
student art exhibits and competitions (2015 NJ State Inclusion Matters Poster Contest, 2
honorable mentions) and 2016 traveling museum exhibition (63 participating Fifth Grade
students.)
Far Brook School Pre-K - 8
2004 – 2014 First Grade Associate/Art Education Specialist, Pre-K – 8th
, Far Brook School,
Short Hills, N.J.
• Create unique curriculum such as sketchbook and outdoor earthworks to enrich academic
subjects
• Lead weekly art inquiry and studio art lessons
• Speak on art subjects at select faculty meetings and events for student body and families
• Workshop presenter of earthworks curriculum at State Education Conference
• Support and Assist First Grade Team in all academic subjects.
• Teach meditation as part of school-wide commitment to mindfulness.
• Permanent substitute for woodshop and art studio teachers, including full-time Pre-K – 8 art
teacher during studio art teacher’s four-month leave of absence.
2001 – 2002, After-school art teacher, middle school children, New York Kids Club, W. 87th
St., NYC.
2001 – 2002, After-school art teacher, pre-school children, Manhattan Treehouse, NYC.
2001 – 2002, Private art instructor, elementary age students.
CREDENTIALS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2016, Pingry School, NJAIS Instructional Skills Workshop, Basking Ridge, NJ.
2016, Metropolitan Museum of Art Educators’ Workshop “Reading Art, Telling Stories.”
2016, Center for Holocaust, Human Rights, and Genocide Education Art Educators
Workshop, January, resulting in the participation of 63 Fifth Grade Students in traveling
Museum Art Exhibition opening April 10, 2016 through December.
2015, Responsive Classroom Teacher Training Workshops, South Orange Maplewood School
District, NJ.
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3. 2014 - 2015, New Jersey Teacher Certification in Visual Art Alternate Route Program,
certification date February, 2015.
2012, Teachers College, Columbia University, Summer Institute in Teaching Writing, The
Reading and Writing Project, August.
2012, Teachers College, Columbia University 82nd
Saturday Reunion, The Reading and
Writing Project, March.
2012, “A Year With Children,” Attended Guggenheim Museum Special Exhibition of Art by
Children Participating in Learning Through Art Program with Instructional Models.
2012, National Art Educators Association National Conference, NY, NY.
2010, “Educating the Creative Mind” Conference, Kean University, Union, NJ.
2009, “Teaching Literacy Through Art” Workshop, Guggenheim, Museum, NYC, August.
2008 – 2009, “Teaching Literacy Through Art” Four Day Workshop Series, Guggenheim
Museum, NYC, Sept. – May.
2008, Workshop presenter, “Earthworks” NJAIS conference, Martinsville, NJ.
2007, “Art with Young Children” Workshop, Bank Street, January.
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION
2015, Alternate Route New Jersey Standard Teaching Certification.
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa. M. F.A. Painting, GPA 3.79
Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts, graduate cum laude, B.F.A in
Studio Art. GPA 3.54
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass, Sophomore year.
PUBLISHED WORKS AND MURALS
Writing: Author and illustrator, Walking On Walnuts, a culinary memoir, Bantam, 1996,
national media, regional bestseller.
Feature articles and illustration, New York Times Magazine, Newark Star Ledger, Newsday,
and Fine Cooking Magazine, among others. Clips available on request.
Fine Art Murals: Metropolitan area, private homes, one-of-a-kind hand-painted murals on
interior walls.
Artist and Publisher, http://www.jellypress.com, an art and food blog, launched 2007.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS, Visual Art
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4. 2016, “An Intimate History of Milkweed,” 3-person exhibition, Kenise Barnes Gallery,
Larchmont, NY.
2016, “Big Ink at NOHO Book and Print Fair” woodblock printing event, Northampton, MASS.
2016, “I Will Touch a Hundred Flowers,” Solo Exhibition, Lippman Gallery, Short Hills, NJ.
2015, “Old Enough to Know Better,” Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA
2015, “11-point Perspective,” Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ.
2014, “Everyone I’ve Ever Fed,” Two-person exhibition, 73 See Gallery, Montclair, NJ.
2013, “Here in the Same Open Emptiness/After Marina Tsvetaeva” Two-person exhibition,
73 See Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2013, “Of the Land,” chaNorth Alumni Exhibition, New York, N.Y.
2012, “Mudluscious”, New Jersey Arts Incubator, West Orange, NJ.
2011, “What You Get Is To Be Changed,” Solo Exhibition, NJ Arts Incubator, West Orange, NJ.,
solo exhibit.
2011, “Pale Language,” Three-person exhibition, New Jersey Arts Incubator, West Orange, NJ.
2011, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey 25th
International Juried Show, 1/14, Summit, NJ.
2010 “It’s Complicated,” Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa
2010 “2D or Not 2D,” Juried by Chuck Arnoldi and Gregory Amenoff, President’s Office
Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.
2009, “Works in Progress”, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.
2009, “A Pinch and a Dash”, Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY.
2008, “Works in Progress”, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.
2007, Launch of online gallery, www.nanring.com
2005, “Essentials” New Door Creative Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
2005, “Subtleties” Iandor Fine Art Gallery, Newark, NJ.
Collections: Coca Cola, Phillip Morris, Prudential Insurance Company, among others
RESIDENCIES
2016, Artist-in-Residence, Millay Colony, NY, July Alumni Weekend.
2014, Artist-in-Residence, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, VA, June
2014, Artist-in-Residence, Soaring Gardens, PA, July.
2013, Artist-in-Residence, Ucross Foundation, WY, August
2013, Artist-in-Residence, I-Park, East Haddam, CT, July
2012, Artist-in-Residence, chaNorth, Pine Plains, NY, July
2012, Artist-in-Residence, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Saratoga, WY, June
2011, Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, July
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5. ART REVIEWS
NJ Star Ledger, December 1, 2011, “Romantic Fragments in West Orange,” Dan Bischoff, p. 31,
review of solo exhibition “What You Get Is To Be Changed”
West Orange Patch, September 17, 2011, “Three Artists Share a Pale Language” Carol Selman,
online, West Orange, NJ. http://westorange.patch.com/articles/three-artists-share-a-pale-
language-at-new-jersey-arts-incubator#
HONORS AND AWARDS
2012, Scholarship Award, Painting, chaNorth artist-in-residence program, Pine Plains, NY
2011, Fellowship Award ,Painting, Vermont Studio Center.
2011, Honorable Mention, Painting, Visual Art Center 25th
Juried Exhibition, Summit, NJ
2010, Nominee, The Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting
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6. ART REVIEWS
NJ Star Ledger, December 1, 2011, “Romantic Fragments in West Orange,” Dan Bischoff, p. 31,
review of solo exhibition “What You Get Is To Be Changed”
West Orange Patch, September 17, 2011, “Three Artists Share a Pale Language” Carol Selman,
online, West Orange, NJ. http://westorange.patch.com/articles/three-artists-share-a-pale-
language-at-new-jersey-arts-incubator#
HONORS AND AWARDS
2012, Scholarship Award, Painting, chaNorth artist-in-residence program, Pine Plains, NY
2011, Fellowship Award ,Painting, Vermont Studio Center.
2011, Honorable Mention, Painting, Visual Art Center 25th
Juried Exhibition, Summit, NJ
2010, Nominee, The Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting
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