Name:

Nancy Azara

Place of Birth:

Brooklyn, NY

Ethnicity:

Italian American

Father's Name:

Joseph F. Azara

Mother's Name:

Nancy Como

Children's Names:

Nana Olivas

Sibling's Names :

Victoria and Joseph

Job Title:

Sculptor and Educator

Affiliations:

International Sculpture Center, WCA, CAA, Sculptors Guild

Interests and Hobbies:

travel

Societal Contributions:

Nancy Azara is a sculptor, painter and educator who has shown her carved, painted and gilded wood sculptures both locally and internationally in places as diverse as Italy and Taiwan.

She founded a feminist art institute with 5 other women The New York Feminist Art Institute, NYFAI (1979-1990) where she taught a workshop called Visual Diaries: Consciousness Raising and Art Making. She has also written a book Spirit Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Art.

She is a mother ad grandmother and her life partner is Darla Bjork, MD, artist and physician.