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Join the Friends of the New Providence Memorial Library in celebrating the opening of the newest art exhibit in the library, the work of photographer Nancy Ori.
Everyone is welcome to attend this public reception. Art exhibits and receptions are made possible by the Friends of the New Providence Memorial Library's art committee.
About the artist:
Nancy J. Ori obtained a BA degree in Fine Arts from Elmira College, Elmira, NY and an MS degree in Visual Communications from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She worked for 25 years for Ciba-Geigy Pharmaceuticals and Novartis Pharmaceuticals as their in-house corporate photographer and manager of Video and Photography Services.
Since 2001, Ori has been the owner of New Jersey Media Center, LLC in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey where she continues to do product, portrait, and food photography. She also enjoys teaching photography globally as well as exhibiting her fine art photographs. Nancy was taught by Ansel Adams and then affiliated for many years with the Ansel Adams Workshop in CA as a teaching assistant.
She then started her own workshop company for photography and other mediums and invited dozens of art teachers to join her in Cape May, NJ to teach workshops each spring for 28 years. She now enjoys teaching digital photography workshops and running photography tours globally, which she has been doing since 2006.
In 1994, she founded the New Jersey Photography Forum, which over the years under Ori’s direction, has become the largest and most recognized group of fine art exhibiting photographers in the state.
Ori’s work has been widely collected and exhibited in museums & galleries throughout the globe & has been chosen to participate in numerous grant projects and fine art exhibits. Her work is in permanent museum and corporate collections internationally including the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Along with exhibiting her own work, Ori has curated and juried hundreds of exhibits for a wide variety of venues and organizations internationally.