Episode 19: Nancy Azara, Tuesday, February 16th, 2021
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Nancy Azara, rad feminist, mystical art mama
Nancy Azara, artist and feminist educator, is best known for her large-scale wood sculptures and mixed media installations. This work explores life cycles, utilizing the tree as metaphor for personhood exploring folkloric stories of mystic women’s roles, goddess imagery, ancient symbols, and affirmation of female self.
She co-founded NYFAI, The New York Feminist Art Institute in 1979. She currently engages in community intergenerational feminist dialogues with (RE)PRESENT, an outgrowth of NYFAI.
She formalized her NYFAI class "Visual Diaries, Consciousness Raising Workshop" as a way to access the unconscious, which quickly became popular as a feminist consciousness-raising method embraced in the nascent feminist art community in New York and with groups like Redstockings.
Nancy holds workshops, mentors other feminist artists, sustaining a visual, experiential and pedagogical practice, remaining informed by body, nature, spirituality and her experience as a woman.
Nancy makes and exhibits work from her studios in Tribeca and Woodstock, NY.
www.nancyazara.com