About Nancy	Personal Statement Background Awards & Achievements Exhibitions & Presentations
Personal Statement "I believe self expression is essential for a full life. Expressions of thoughts, feelings and impressions provide opportunities to communicate, heal, learn, connect with each other, connect with our own spirits and experience joy. It is my hope my work touches your heart, challenges you to think or see things from a new perspective or simply brings a smile to your face."
Background Nancy Scheibe was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1954. She was the third of eight children. Her interest in art began early and was encouraged by her mother, Myrtle, who died when Nancy was 11. She graduated high school and attended the School of the Associated Arts for one semester to study art. Due to economic pressures she transferred to a community college and art became a vocation while she raised her three children. She continued drawing, painting and sculpting, and is primarily self taught. When opportunities presented themselves to study art she took advantage of them, which included a few classes at Atelier Lack School of Art in Minneapolis where she polished her technical skills. Nancy acquired a Bachelors Degree in Communication and Counseling Psychology at Metro State University in St. Paul. She used her artwork to heal from an abusive relationship, then combined it with her counseling background and wrote her first book Women’s Experience Coloring book: A Playful Journey In Healing and Hope.   In 2004, turning 50 began a new page in her life. She began her expedition kayaking down the Mississippi to gather women’s wisdom. She divided the river into five sections and is writing about her experiences. She and her husband opened a coffee shop and café in Ely, Minnesota where she and Doug live in the woods.
Awards and Achievements June 2009 The Magical Adventures of Clara the Cleaning Lady: Clara Meets Mr. Twiddles won first place at the Hollywood Book Festival in the children's catagory. Nancy illustrated this book. May 2009 Willie Walleye: Underwater Adventures was nominated and received recognition by the Twenty-first Annual Northeastern Minnesota Book Award presented by the University of Minnesota Duluth.  Nancy illustrated this book. Willie Walleye: Underwater Adventures took First Place in the Child/Youth Adult Fiction category of the 2008 Midwest Book Achievement Awards, held by the Midwest Independent Publishers Association. Nancy illustrated this book.    May 2008 Water Women Wisdom: Voices From the Upper Mississippi was nominated and received recognition by the Twentieth Annual Northeastern Minnesota Book Award presented by the University of Minnesota Duluth. Nancy wrote and illustrated this book. Nancy Scheibe was named a 2007 ChangeMaker by the Minnesota Women’s Press: Changing the Universe through Women’s Stories. These awards are given for extraordinary actions taken over a given year to create greater equality, justice and self-determination for women and girls. 2007 Mayor’s Choice Award mixed media fish sculpture in Ely, Minnesota, art contest. 1999 Minnetonka Reflections Award in recognition of the individuals whose outstanding volunteer contributions reflect positively on the community.
Exhibitions July 2009 - Ely Greenstone Public Juried Art Show February 2009 – Ely Artwalk Group Exhibition February 2009 - Snow Sculptors Symposium, Professional Carver, Ely Winterfest February 2008 – Ely Artwalk Solo Exhibition February 2008 - Snow Sculptors Symposium, Professional Carver, Ely Winterfest July 2008  - Ely Greenstone Public Juried Art Show June 2008 -Gardner Trust Grant for outdoor mural, Mad Hatter’s Tea Party – Ely Style February 2007 - Snow Sculptors Symposium, Professional Carver, Ely Winterfest February 2007 – Ely Artwalk Group Exhibition April 07 through April 08 - Solo exhibition – Queen City Federal building, Ely June 1998 - Solo exhibition at Hopins Center For the Arts. Singing Her Truth - and exhibition about domestic violence
Presentations February 2009 - Classroom presentations in Ely School, Book Illustration January 2009 - Artist in Residence, Ely Public School, Mosaic Design January 2009 - Classroom presentations in Ely School, Snow Carving as part of Winterfest Snow Carving Symposium November 2008 – Intuitive Development Class, Ely, Minnesota October 2008 – Intuitive Development Class, Dayton, Ohio July 2008 – Intuitive Development Class, QiGong Women In the Wilderness, Ely, Minnesota March 2008 – Intuitive Development Class, St. Louis, Missouri February 2008 - Classroom presentations in Ely School, Book Illustration January 2008 - Classroom presentations in Ely School, Snow Carving as part of Winterfest Snow Carving Symposium May 2007 – Intuitive Development Class, St. Louis, Missouri July 2007 – Intuitive Development Class, QiGong Women In the Wilderness, Ely, Minnesota February 2007 - Classroom presentations in Ely School, Book Illustration January 2007 - Classroom presentations in Ely School, Snow Carving as part of Winterfest Snow Carving Symposium August 2006 – Intuitive Development Class, QiGong Women In the Wilderness, Ely, Minnesota February 2006 – Intuitive Development Class, Ely, Minnesota February 2006 - Classroom presentations in Ely School, Book Illustration January 2006 - Classroom presentations in Ely School, Snow Carving as part of Winterfest Snow Carving Symposium September 2005 – Intuitive Development Class, Ely, Minnesota April 2005 – Intuitive Development Class, Ely, Minnesota February 2005 - Keynote speaker on Water Women Wisdom project, Morning For Women, Lake City Medical Center- Mayo Health System, Lake City, MN February, 2005 - Keynote speaker on Water Women Wisdom project, 16th Annual Experiential Education Conference, Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, IL October 2004 – Intuitive Development Class, Ely, Minnesota January 2004 – Intuitive Development Class, Ely, Minnesota October 2003 – Intuitive Development Class, Ely, Minnesota May 2003 – Hazelden Foundation, Women Healing Conference, Art and Healing, Chicago, Illinois April 2003 – Hazelden Foundation, Women Healing Conference, Art and Healing, West Palm Beach, Florida October 2003 – Hazelden Foundation, Women Healing Conference, Art and Healing, Nashville, Tennessee December 2003 – Hazelden Foundation, Women Healing Conference, Art and Healing, Minneapolis, Minnesota September 1998 – Women and Spirituality Conference, Mankato, Minnesota September 1997 – Women and Spirituality Conference, Mankato, Minnesota

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