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Nancy Aleo is a cross-discipline artist with a studio practice ranging from mixed media drawing and painting, ceramics, to sound works and performances with large resonant gongs, singing bowls, and harmonious bells, incorporating Harmonic Therapies. Personal spiritual practices, along with decades of travel and study in Mexico inform her work. She exhibits nationally, internationally, and maintains a studio in the Boston area.

Nancy is a current professor in the Studio Foundation Department at MassArt. In the past she has served as the Department Chairperson from 2008-2016, as well as Program Area Chair for Form Study during the 2023-2024 Academic Year.

 

 

Industry Experience

• Past President (2006-2016), Board of Trustees, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
• Teaching Assistant for BonPo Shang Retreats with 9Ways Academia, Perkasie, PA. 

  
  Exhibitions include:
  Fenway Gallery, Boston, MA
  Brant Gallery, Boston, MA
  Galerie Le Cabannon & Galerie Aqui Siam Ben in Vallauris, France
  Attleboro Arts Museum
  Cambridge Art Association
  New England BioLabs, Ipswich, MA
  Sguardi Sonori, Napoli, Italy.Other regional, national, & international exhibitions including Washington DC, Georgia, New Mexico, New England, Germany, & Japan.

Soundscapes and Performances include:
Gong Soundscape Dec. 1st, Medicine Wheel Project, 24-hr, Vigil for AIDS, Cyclorama, Boston, MA (6th year).

5 Unique Gong Soundscapes responding to Fujiko Nakaya’s Fog x FLO Ruins climate-response fog sculpture, Franklin Park, Boston, MA.

Recording & performing @ The TANK, Center for Sonic Arts, Rangely, CO.

Secret Gong Orchestra Concert “Red Kachina”, Nancy Aleo, Mitch Nur, Ricarda O’Connor, Sam Weng, & Janet Young @ Widow Jane Mine, Rosendale, NY.

9Ways Academic’s Gong Camp, solo performance, Perkasie, PA

Awards

• Berkshire Taconic Artist Resource Trust, NEFA/NEA Regional Fellowship in Visual Arts Program in Painting (Twice), Massachusetts College of Art & Design Faculty Fellowship (Twice).
• Awarded artist residency at A.I.R. Vallauris, France
• Independent artist residencies in Mexico, Costa Rica, & Barcelona, Spain, Italy
• Traveling, studying, & researching in Mexico for three decades including co-teaching travel courses to Oaxaca, Puebla & Cholula, Mexico.
• MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. Major: Ceramics 
• BFA, Massachusetts College of Art and design. Major: Ceramics