Nancy Gary Ward

Nancy Gary Ward MFA

            Nancy is an artist, educator, designer, and business owner living in Corona, California.  She received her MFA from Azusa Pacific University. She currently teaches painting, drawing, graphic design, and design thinking at California Baptist University in Riverside.  She is the owner of Artistic License, an art services company representing over fifty artists since 1994. She is a program director of Mad St. Gallery, an issues based gallery in Riverside.

            Her experience includes gallery exhibits of paintings and drawings, murals, weaving and textiles, greeting card design, portraiture, medical illustration, and interior design. Her work history includes illustrating seventeen children’s books for the Walt Disney Corporation and six children’s books for David C. Cook Publishers.

Selected Exhibits

                                                         2015 – Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA, Solo exhibit

                                                         2015 – Mad St. Gallery, Riverside, CA, Group exhibit

                                                         2014 – Gallery p Three, Pomona, CA, Group exhibit

                                                         2014 – CBU Gallery, Riverside, CA, Faculty exhibit

                                                         2013 – Mad St. Gallery, Riverside, CA, Group exhibit

                                                         2001 – 2004 – Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, Fundraising exhibit

                                                         2001 – 2012 – Crossroads, Corona, CA, Group exhibit

                                                         1994 – 2014 – Artistic License Fair, Costa Mesa, CA, Group exhibit

                                                         1995 – 1996 – Walking Canvas, Fullerton, CA, Group exhibit

                                                         1986 – 1998 – Artistic License – Private shows and fundraisers,

                                                         1984 – US Track and Field Hall of Fame, Indianapolis, IN, Group exhibit

                                                         1982 – McCombs Gallery, Santa Ana, CA, Solo exhibit                                                        

Publications

Somerset Studios Publishing - Belle Armoire, "Best of Issue" 2003

Somerset Studios Publishing - Belle Armoire, "Button Relics" 2002

Chariot Publishing - Illustrator - "Face to Face with Women of the Bible" 1996

Medical Publishing Enterprises - Illustrator - "Osteoporosis Answer Book" 1993

Walt Disney Productions - Illustrator - "The Little Mermaid" books by mail series 1992

David C Cook Publishing - Illustrator, - "Six Busy Days" 1990

David C. Cook - Illustrator - "Jesus is with me" series of four books 1990

Official Painting for the US Track and Field Team, 1984 Summer Olympic Games,

Los Angeles, CA released in Limited Edition.