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• About me

  Nadine Charity has played by the rules her whole life. She has spent her life smoothing altercations in school and out, between children and adults and she has had enough.She is working on her first real body of work showing how women age and the body issues they drag around with them the whole day. She wants everyone to keep their opinions to themselves, get off their asses and create something exciting, engaging, spectacular and not precious. She is tired of asking children to do what she would never ask an adult to do, so she is going to start letting the adults know how she feels about life. Especially life for women in the 21st century. She has grandchildren who need her to do this now. She is tired of little, crappy work and is moving on to bigger, stupendously big and doesn't give a fuck if you care.

• Resume

  Nadine Charity's literary excellence was recognized by the state of Louisiana in 1993 and again in 1998 when they juried her into the Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist Roster. She won an Artist Fellowship award in Literary Arts in 2009 from the Shreveport Regional Arts Council.2007 had Nadine traveling in Japan as a winner of the Fulbright Memorial Fund award. Most recently her talents as an artist and teacher have been recognized by the Bossier Parish School Board when she was named Teacher of the Year at the school and parish level. She was also recognized at the state level as Louisiana Art Educator of the Year by the Louisiana Art Educators Association.She was juried into the SRAC Artist Roster in 2011 by San Diego based art critic Robert Pincus. In 2012 Louisiana Poet Laureate Julie Kane selected her poem Random and Fractured as one of the top prize winners in The Friends of the Algur Meadows Museum Poetry Contest in conjunction with the artwork Matador by New Orleans artist Monica Zeringue.Currently she is creator and Artistic Director of En Plein Air Gallery—- an open air street art gallery that developed through a collaboration with French artist JR.In the fall of 2013 she will begin a two year commitment as a member of the board of Meadows Museum.All of this is important. All of this is changing.
  Nadine Charity
  503 Broadmoor Blvd., Shreveport, LA 71105Selected Group Exhibitions
  2013
  
  Kallenberg Tower Gallery, an Open Air Art Gallery, Kathryn Usher, Artistic Director
  Critical Mass, ArtSpace, Shreveport, Louisiana, William Joyce, Artistic Director
  2012
  Algur Meadows Museum Poetry Contest, Shreveport, Louisiana, Julie Kane, Louisiana Poet Laureate, judge
  Bonafide II, ArtSpace, Shreveport, Louisiana, William Joyce, Artistic Director (poetry
  submission)
  Louisiana Art Educators Show, Hammond Art Center, Hammond, Louisiana, Denise Tullier-
  Holly curator
  On the Shoulders of Giants, ArtSpace, Shreveport, Louisiana, William Joyce, Artistic Director
  Common Scene, ArtSpace, Shreveport, Louisiana, juried by Neil Johnson
  Now on display at Central Art Station, Shreveport
  Street Art, En Plein Air Gallery (Beauty Supply Gallery), Shreveport, Creative Director
  2011
  Texas Avenue Midnight Special, Minicine?Swampland, Shreveport, Louisiana, David Nelson
  Creative Director
  Look But Don't Touch, East Bank Gallery, Bossier City, Louisiana
  Impromptu, ArtSpace, Shreveport, Louisiana, William Joyce, Artistic Director
  Inside Out Project collaboration with French Artist JR, En Plein Air Gallery (Beauty Supply
  Gallery), Shreveport, Louisiana
  2010
  Bossier Teacher's Show, East Bank Gallery, Bossier City, Louisiana
  2009
  Bonafide, ArtSpace, William Joyce, Artistic Director
  2008
  ArtSpace/SpaceArt, ArtSpace, Shreveport, Louisiana, William Joyce, Artistic Director
  Group Projects
  2013
  UNSCENE! “Let's Maker a Parade,” November, Brandon Oldenburg, Artistic Director
  UNSCENE! “We Are the Residents” Virtual parade, October, Brandon Oldenburg, Artistic
  Director, Rob Peterson and Robert Greenwood curators
  Labor Art Sweat, An intensive five day guerrilla art residency, Central Artstation, Shreveport, Louisiana, Co-directors, Kathryn Usher and Nadine Charity
  Labor Art Sweat, Print Workshop at Meadows Museum of Art, Shreveport, Louisiana. Co-
  presenters, Kathryn Usher and Nadine Charity
  2011
  En Plein Air Gallery (Beauty Supply Gallery), Street art space begun after collaboration with
  French Artist JR and his Inside Out Project, Artistic Director, Nadine Charity
  Texas Avenue Midnight Special, One of three artists who documented the new downtown home
  of the Shreveport Regional Arts Council, Central Artstation while it was in progress Co-
  Artistic Directors, Kathryn Usher and Nadine CharityAwards and Honors
  2012
  Northwest Louisiana Artist Roster, SRAC, juried by Brett Campbell
  Second Prize, Friends of the Algur Meadows Museum Poetry Contest in conjunction with the
  art work Matador by Monica Zeringue, Meadows Museum, Shreveport, Louisiana,
  juried by Louisiana Poet Laureate Julie Kane
  2009
  Artist Fellowship, Literary, Shreveport Regional Arts Council
  Louisiana Artist Fellowship, Louisiana Division of the Arts, on the team of judges (Baton
  Rouge)1995 Louisiana Roster Artist, Louisiana Division of the Arts