| Nancy Krehl Stillwagon | ||
| Birth Date: 1949 |
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| Nancy Stillwagon was raised in a middle class home with a father who was self-employed selling office furniture and a mother who was a homemaker. She has her Doctorate from Case Western Reserve University and her Masters from Kent State University.
Nancy Stillwagon describes Girls on 42nd Street:” At the time I executed the ‘Girls on 42nd Street’ I was very interested in the figure and sought to use it in a social and often satirical vein. My attitude toward the figure mirrored my own bizarre interest in the unusual and more provocative aspects of human existence”.
“My name is Nancy Krehl Stillwagon and I painted this picture while in graduate school at Kent State University. At that time I was teaching drawing and painting at the Canton Art Museum, exhibiting, and then moved into teaching art history at the college level.
Now, after retiring from teaching I'm professionally playing jazz piano. What I've come to realize is that my true love has always been music! I began playing piano at age 5 and through college then dropped it for 35 years. After I broke my back and was incapacitated, music became the central passion in my life. So, now, I've come full circle, I'm back where I started. I've come to realize that it's all the same, whether it's art, music, theatre, or dance, etc. The arts are the most marvelous expressions of our innermost lives that we need to nurture to become fully human. Whatever my expression is, doesn't really matter, as long as it comes from the authentic part of my being”.
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