Nancy Ori
MS in Communication Design
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Nancy Ori Workshops in Photography, Painting and Mixed Media Expert
Nancy Ori Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Film and digital still photography, video and mixed media painting
- Career Focus
- teacher, business owner
- Affiliation
- New Art Group, Visual Arts Center of NJ, Somerset Art Assoc, Morris Museum, Newark Museum, Grounds for Sculpture,
Nancy J. Ori has been respected for over three decades as a corporate photographer and video producer for New Jerseyr Media Center LLC in Berkeleyr Heights, NJ. She also enjoys teaching at photography classes and workshops in the US and Europe as well as tutoring privately throughout the year. She was affiliated for many years with the Ansel Adams Workshop in CA and is presently on the faculty and regular lecturer at the Visual Arts Center of NJ in Summit; Peters Valley Educationr Center in Layton, Morris Museum in Morristown, Newark Museum, Grounds forr Sculpture in Hamilton and the Watchung Adult School in Watchung.
In 1990, she established the NJ Heritage Workshop Series, which she holds annually in Cape May for photographers and other artists. She also conducts destination workshops each fall to locations such as Santa Fe and Italy.
A six-time grant winner from the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders tornproduce photographic projects for her community, Nancy was also awarded ther Woman of Excellence Award in Arts and Humanities for Union County in 2004.
Ori’srnwork has been widely published and exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe. She holds a BA degree in Fine Arts and an MS degree i Visual Communications from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. www.nancyoriphotography.com
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As I See It: Learning from Life Lessons
As I See It: learning from life lessons February 2010 As a teacher, I often play the role of life coach, mentor, friend and even therapist to many of my students. I have developed these skills through my years of photographing, painting, teaching and carefully observing life. When you add a lifetime of art experience to the eye and heart of a trained observer, an interesting person emerges. If you listen to and learn from your experiences as they unfold every day around you, you can find the answers to many questions in life. These are my observations.
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Ideas From Art And Fear
My thoughts, inspired by Art and Fear Art is not for the weak at heart. If you want to do something easy – go get a real job and frankly, get out of our way. You must have passion for your work and the energy to follow it through. I photograph because I must. I get up every morning with ...
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What Is the Poor Starving Artist to Do in This Economy?
This is a great question and there are some great answers. Yes, we know that artists are living on a very limited income so we can do our ‘work’. The work is more important to us than material things many times. But, what can you do when you can’t pay the heating bill? This is a real issue ...
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Smiling Can Change Your Life
Have you ever noticed that some people have the best smiles and they seem to literally light up a room? As a photographer, I often hear people say that they don’t look good when they smile so they don’t want to smile in the photographs that I am doing. After thirty years of photographing people, ...
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On Being a Photographer and Seeing Clearly:
Being a photographer is not just about taking a picture or creating a product. It is about the process of maturing, ofrnindividual growth and gaining an understanding of history...the history ofrnphotography, of yourself and your subject matter. It’s about what experiences you have had inrnyour life and how you live your life. The act of seeing photographically and finding images that speak tornyou... “take my picture”, comes from a summary of everything you have ever done and felt, good and bad. It’s this total body apparatus that makes a photograph, not the camera. The camera is just a tool, a box with film in it that needs to be handled correctly.
Like any artist, the photographer must believe in what he or she is doing and work with great passion. If you truly commit to this, you will be taken care of. Your life and your work will progress forward as you are learning to see more clearly. It’s not important how many great photographsr I can make. For me, it is more about emotion and how many lives I can touch along the way that matters. Making a living as an artist is a gift. Sharing this gift is the most important part of the process--either by teaching or exhibiting my work. The rest will come.
So you see, it’s really about commitment. It isrnrequired at every level and becomes a continuous effort. Commitment to a high standard ofrncraftsmanship or technique is basic. You can’t speak the language if you don’t know the words. Commitment to staying long enough in a place or with a particular project in order to understand it and have it speak tornyou. This takes time and resources. And of course, commitment to discovering how to give something back to the process by supporting or enlightening others.
From this effort will come a style. It may take years of hard work to get on track or it may happen naturally and quickly. But I do believe that time and life experience has made a difference in how I see. With time and attention, things become much clearer as to what is being seen and how the mind and heart are going to deal with it.
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