NANCY RAKOCZY 4761 Broadway #5F; New York, NY 10034 cell 917-683-0587
nancyrakoczy@aol.com www.NancyRakoczy.com

EDUCATION:
2007, M.A. Hunter College, NY, Secondary School-Ed-English
B.F.A., Pratt Institute: Major-Painting; Minor-Graphic Design

AWARDS:
2012 Queens Council in the Arts, Arts Organization Award for 2012.
(artist and grant writer)
2010 Queens Council on the Arts Individual Artist Support grantee
(artist and grant writer)
Silver Award Winner for “Point of Purchase Advertising Institute”
(POPAI) promotional tool ‘Batman Forever,’ movie

HONORS:
Graduated Cum Laude

ART EXHIBITS:

2013 Women in the Heights-Celebrations,
NOMAA Gallery, NY
Bridging the Gap, LIC Artists; Flushing Town Hall and LaGuardia Community College, NY;

Riverstone Senior Life: NOMAA's Uptown Arts Stroll;
Global Projects; Broadway Gallery, NY
LICA- Open Studios, LIC, NY;
Friends and Members Show; The Gallery at Saint Peter's NY
Blurring the Lines; James Chapel; Union Theological Seminary, NY

Crucificado!; St. Pauls' Lutheran Church; Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

2012 LICA- Open Studios, 11-11 Lofts, The Salazar Building, LIC, NY
Moon 2 @ Tryton, Roy Aras Theaters, NY
Women in the Heights-Intersections,
NOMAA Gallery, NY

2011 A Sense of Place, Holiday Inn, LIC, NY;
Resonance, LPAC, La Guardia Community College,

http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/lpac/details.asp?Event_ID=19760 NY;
32 Below, Brooklyn, NY

2010, At Her Age, curated by Martha Wilson; A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Urban/Convergence, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Dancing Weavings, parade and show at Local Project Gallery, LIC
Voice of Fire, Space Realty, LIC
Dancing Weavings," Figment Governor's Island
ArmoryFest, Clock Tower Gallery, LIC, NY
Visible/Invisible; Holiday Inn, Manhattan View, LIC, NY

2009, Framing Aids, Queens Museum, NY
A Book About Death, Queens Museum, NY
Visible/Invisible; Holiday Inn, Manhattan View, LIC, NY
2009 Reunion: Work by Pratt Alumni; NY

Dancing Ribbons, Figment, Governor’s Island;
Long Island City Open Studios, LIC;
The Queens' s Sky, Local Project, LIC, NY
Tribes Gallery, NY: Long Island City Artists Index: http://www. licartists.org//index.php/ArtistsWork/index/179/80#

2008, Framing Aids 2008, Queens Museum; , NY;
Decompression, Brooklyn, NY;
Queens Museum, Queens Artists Index:
http://www.queensmuseum.org/exhibitions/indexrakoczy.html

2007, Project Diversity, Meat Space Gallery, L.I.C. Queens Council of the Arts; Decompression, Queens Museum, NY

2003, The Garment Magical, The Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn NY

INTERVIEWS:

2007, ArtSpy; Queens Council of the Arts and QPTV

COLLECTIONS:
Betsey and Marc Leavitt; The Paulist Fathers, NY

WORK EXPERIENCE:
English Teacher - St. Vincent Ferrer High School 2006 to present
Christ the King High School 2001-2006
Art Director, DC Comics/TimeWarner, NY

WRITING & ART for PUBLICATIONS:
2013 Winter, Honorable Mention, New Millenium
2009 Grand Prize Winner: Dancing Poetry Festival, San Francisco, CA
Paulist Press; Harlin Jacque Publications;
Olivetree Review;
Inspirit
Temenos: http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/creative_writing/nancy_rakoczy.htm
Temenos: http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/creative_writing/nancy_rakoczy2.htm
The National Catholic Reporter; http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/ is_26_40/ai_n6029422
Perspectives: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/ology/perspectives.shtml,
http://lindamichellebaron.com/rakoczy/index.html

PERFORMANCES & READINGS:
2012, 2011; Unwrapping Lazarus; NY, NY

2009, Kew Gardens Kids Art in the Park
2007, Hamtramck Public Library; Prospect Park Zoo, Brooklyn;
Flushing Library; Richmond Hill Library
2004-2001 Unwrapping Lazarus; NY, NY
2003, Hunter College, NY; Forest Hills Library

WORKSHOPS/ CONFERENCES:
2012, Recycrows; Queens County Farm Museum;

Earth Day at Inwood Park, NY
2011, Earth Day at the Voelker-Orth Museum, Flushing, NY
2010, DIRT, New York Metro American Studies Association
2009, Figment, Governor’s Island, NY;
2008, Figment, Governor’s Island, NY;
2008, 2007, Decompression;
2003, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY