Biography
Nancy Steele-Makasci is an American interdisciplinary visual artist, art educator, and Professor of Art in the Department of Art and Design at Utah Valley University, where she teaches courses in painting, drawing, printmaking, and art education. She earned an MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, an MA from Ball State University, and a BA in art education from Ball State University.
Working in a wide range of reproducible print media, painting, drawing, and book arts, Steele-Makasci confronts a variety of contemporary social justice issues including gender and cultural inequalities, environmental concerns, and economic disparity. She completed an artist residency at MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) in Japan in 2024, focusing on the advanced techniques of mokuhanga (traditional Japanese water-based color woodblock printing).
Her work was accepted into the juried exhibition of the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference, held in Echizen, Japan. She has also exhibited with the Salt Lake City Arts Council and at the Clayton Staples Gallery at Wichita State University, and she has received awards from the Utah Arts Council and the American Association of University Women (AAUW) of Utah.
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- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Nancy Steele-Makasci is an American interdisciplinary visual artist, art educator, and Professor of Art in the Department of Art and Design at Utah Valley University, where she teaches courses in painting, drawing, printmaking, and art education. She earned an MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, an MA from Ball State University, and a BA in art education from Ball State University.
Nancy Steele-Makasci's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.