Born: Quincy, Florida
Resides: Melbourne, FL
EDUCATION
Attained 56 Post Graduate hours from various universities:
1993 Florida International University, Miami, FL
1988-87 The University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
1982 The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
1974 Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
1971 Masters of Art, Art Education and Constructive Design
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (Fellowship Recipient)
1969 Bachelors of Science, Art Education and Constructive Design
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
COMMISSIONS
2011 Indian River Potters’ Guild, Mural, Part of the Eau Gallie Arts District’s Outdoor Mural Museum Program, Melbourne, FL (Commission)
2007 Eau Gallie Pier Mosaic, Melbourne, FL (First public art commissioned for Melbourne, FL)
2005 Berman, Hopkins, Wright & Laham CPA, Merritt Island, FL (Commission)
1990 Orlando Utilities Commission, Orlando, FL (Commission)
1990 Diebel, Lazar, & Stroup, MDPA, Winter Park, FL
1990 Marriott HOST International, Orlando International Airport, Orlando, FL. (Commission)
1989 Dean, Mead, Egerton, Bloodworth, Caponano & Bozarth, Olympic Plaza, Orlando, FL
COLLECTIONS
Maitland Art Center, Maitland, FL
Vero Beach Art Museum, Vero Beach, FL
Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Orlando City Hall, Orlando, FL
Knollwood Army Retirement Center, Washington DC
Administrative Arts, Orlando, FL
Southeast Bank, Miami, FL.
Price Waterhouse, Dupont Center, Orlando, FL
Hubbard Construction Company, Orlando, FL
Brevard Community College, Melbourne, FL
ONGOING COMMUNITY PROJECTS
Eau Gallie Arts District Outdoor Art Museum, Co-Chair, Melbourne FL
Eau Gallie Arts District, Design Committee, Secretary
Save Our Public Art (Co-Chair)
1. The Wave: Dream, Imagine, Inspire, and Create, C0ordinator, mosaic on the south side of the Eau Gallie Public Library, Melbourne, FL
2. Geoffrey Naylor’s Papyrus Column, downtown Eau Gallie, a section of Melbourne, FL
HONOR
2018 “Women We Love” Eau Gallie Arts District Honoree
CURRENT EXHIBIT
2024
100% Pure Florida: 9th Annual Juried Invitational, Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, Melbourne, FL. Received the Donald Thomas Crawford Sr. Memorial Award, $100; Sponsor: Nancy Crawford for Lizard Chick, Drawing on canvas
SELECTED SOLO & INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2024
Winter Small Works, National Association of Women Artists, Online Exhibit February 1-29, 2024
2023
2023
October 26, 2023 – January 28, 2024, Surreal Worlds: Nancy Baur Dillen and Clare Radigan: Two Person Exhibit, Ormond Museum and Gardens, Ormond Beach, FL
ARTIST TALK: January 8, 2024 at 11 a.m., Ormond Museum and Gardens, Ormond Beach, FL
August 27 – September 23, Florida Artists Group, Area 5 Exhibit, Art League of Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach, FL
July 7 – August 13, Melange’: Work of Terrie Corbett, Nancy Baur Dillen, and Grace Leal, Venvi Art Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
May 29 – August 18, Arrowmont Faculty Exhibit, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
May 26 – September 15, Treasure Coast Creates: A Tribute to Local Artists, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Juror: Ellen E. Roberts, the Harold and Anne Berkley Smith Senior Curator of American Art at the Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, FL, Vero Beach, FL, Honorable Mention
May 6 – June 10, Visual Poems: Drawings by Nancy Baur Dillen, Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach, FL
January 28 – April 23, Sensations, 73rd Annual Florida Artists Group Exhibit, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL, Blick Merit Award
(Sensations, 73rd Florida Artists Group Virtual Exhibit, www.floridaartistsgroup.org)
January – March, Nancy Baur Dillen Selected Artworks, Mount Dora Art Center, Mount Dora, FL
2022
72nd Annual Florida Artists Group Exhibit, Virtual Exhibit, Florida Artists Group Merit Award , Juror: Holly Koons, Executive Director, Mary M. Torggler Fine Arts Center at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA
72nd Florida Artists Group Virtual Exhibit, Florida Artists Group website (www.floridaartistsgroup.org)
Water Circus Series: Nancy Baur Dillen, Eau Gallie Public Library, Solo Show
Oil on Canvas Virtual Exhibition, National Association of Women Artist, Inc., 1st Place Award
The Aquarium ArtWalk, Cocoa Central Public Library, Cocoa, FL
The Aquarium ArtWalk, West Melbourne Public Library, West Melbourne, FL
2021
Pop-Up Window Exhibit: Nancy Baur Dillen, Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, Ormond Beach, FL
Visual Poems by Nancy Baur Dillen, Solo Exhibit, Sarasota Art Center, Sarasota, FL
71st Annual Florida Artists Group Exhibit, Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, FL, Cecily Hangen & Ahlin Emeritus Award, Juror: Wendy Earle, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, NC
Robot Love: Prove You Are Human, Foosaner Art Museum, Melbourne, FL
2020
Winter Quarterly Invitational Quarterly Virtual Fine Art Show, Bohrer Gallery
70th Annual Florida Artists Group Exhibit, Foosaner Art Museum, Melbourne, FL
2019
Blended Themes, Artwork by Nancy Dillen, MA, Beachside Arts and Studio, Satellite Beach, FL
2019 Best of the Best Annual Juried Exhibition, A. E. Backus Museum and Gallery, Ft. Pierce, FL Award of Merit
Where Am I? A Wednesday Group Exhibit, Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, Melbourne, FL
The Beauty of Small, Florida Artists Group, 69th Annual Symposium Exhibit, Ringling Art, Sarasota, FL
Vision 2019, Strawbridge Art League, Foosaner Art Museum, Melbourne, FL
The Zoological and Botanical Fantasies of Nancy Dillen and Marilyn Rackelman, The Gallery at Melange, Lake Wales, FL
Nancy Baur Dillen, Magical Worlds of Nancy Dillen, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, FL
The Florida Artists Group in Naples, Naples Art Association Gallery, Naples, FL, First Place, Juror: Lauren Huff
Visual Poetry: Real and Imagined Paintings by Nancy Baur Dillen, Garden House at Harry P. Leu Gardens, Orlando, FL
2018
Sound Influences, Area 5 Florida Artists Group, Ormond Art Museum, Ormond Beach, FL , Nov. 9, 2018-Jan. 13, 2019
1NightR2 Art Popup, Melbourne, FL
1NightR Art Popup, Melbourne, FL
Visual Poetry: Real and Imagined Paintings by Nancy Baur Dillen, Garden House at Harry P. Leu Gardens, Orlando, FL
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Instructor’s Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Magical Worlds of Nancy Dillen, Seminole State College Fine Arts Gallery, The Center for Fine & Performing Arts, Sanford, FL
2017
Area 5 Florida Artists Group, Casselbury Art House, Casselbury, FL
Beauty in the Shadows, (Invitational) Studios of Cocoa Beach, 165 Minutemen Causeway, Cocoa Beach, FL
Fluid Nature, (three person show with Candace Knapp and Marianna Hamilton Ross), South Florida State College Museum of Florida Art and Culture, Avon Park, FL, Artist’s Talk,
Magical Worlds of Nancy Dillen, (solo) Frits van Eeden Gallery, Foosaner Art Museum, Melbourne, FL
2016
Inspired Lines: Appleton Drawing Biennial, juror: Alison Ferris, (curator at the John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin), The Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL
2015
Manufactured Scarcity, curated by Cliffton Chandler, Derek Gores Gallery, Melbourne, FL
Reunited: Nancy Dillen and Quentin Walter, Art on 18th Gallery, Vero Beach, FL
25th Annual All Florida Juried Arts Show, Court House Cultural Center, Stuart, FL, Juror: Joshua Hunter Davis
Vision 2015, Strawbridge Art League, Melbourne, FL, Juror: Steve McLachlin
Kaleidoscope of Art, Art and Antique Studio and Fine Arts Gallery, Melbourne, FL, juror Harry Messersmith, First Place
2014
2014 American Salon of Fine Art Competition, Honorable Mention
New Visions of the Florida Landscape, Nancy Dillen and Liu Nan, Gadsden Art Center, Quincy, FL
Vision 2014, Strawbridge Art League, Melbourne, FL
2013
Animal Fairy Tales, Fables, Fact Or Fiction: (National Juried Exhibit) Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
WinterGarden: 27th Annual Holiday Show and Sale (A National Invitational of Fine Art, Craft + Design) Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
Animal Other: (National Juried Exhibit) Shemer Art Center and Museum, Phoenix, AZ, First Place, Juror: Alley Glowacki
small work-Big Talent: Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Flor 500 Participatory art projects: Region 6 Artist, http://www.xaviercortada.com/?page=FLOR304
Strawbridge Art League’s VIVA 500
Traveling Exhibit Sites: Melbourne Beach Library, Cocoa Beach Library, & Orlando City Hall. Judge: Paul Wenzel, Art Coordinator, City of Orlando. 3rd place for Nature Category
Aesthetics of Nature: St. Augustine Art Association Nature and Wildlife Exhibit, juried exhibit, St. Augustine, FL2012
2012
3rd Annual Juried Exhibition (Juried), Florida Museum for Women Artists, DeLand, FL
Members Choice, (invitational), Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, Melbourne, FL
Have Art Will Travel (invitational), EGAD Art Lab, Melbourne, FL
Shaken Not Stirred (invitational), EGAD Art Lab, Melbourne, FL
2011
2nd Annual Juried Exhibition (Juried), Florida Museum for Women Artists, DeLand, FL
Texas National Invitational, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX, James Drake (juror, 2011 Texas Medal of Arts winner)
2010
Transformations: A Collaboration of Art and Poetry, Brevard Art Museum,
Florida Biennial V (Juried), Museum of Florida Art, DeLand, FL, Mark Ormond (juror), Independent Curator. Honorable Mention
Nancy Dillen: Painting (Solo Exhibit), Eau Gallie Public Library, Melbourne, FL
2009
Florida Museum for Women Artists Inaugural Exhibition (Invitational), Florida Museum for Women Artists, DeLand, FL
Nancy Dillen (Solo Exhibit), Starbuck’s, Melbourne, FL
Get Hammered, Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, FL (Invitational)
Nancy Dillen Retrospective: 20 Years of Art in Brevard (Solo Exhibit), Highway Grrl’s Gallery and Studio, Melbourne, Fl
Nancy Dillen (Solo Exhibit), Orlando City Hall, Mayor’s Gallery, Orlando, FL
Nancy Dillen (Solo Exhibit) Mary Woerner Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Take Out, Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, FL
2008
Arabesque: Candace Knapp and Nancy Dillen (Two Person Exhibition), Atlantic Center for the Arts/Harris House, New Smyrna Beach, FL
The Story, Florida State University Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee, FL
It’s Faux Real (Four Person Exhibition), LoPressionism Art Gallery, Melbourne, FL
2007
Brevard Museum of Art Juried Exhibition, Melbourne, FL
The Artwork of Nancy Baur Dillen – Painter (Solo Exhibition), Fish House Art Center Gallery, Stuart, FL
2006
Arrowmont School of Art and Crafts Summer Faculty Exhibit, Gatlinburg, TN
2005
BSO Visual Violin Exhibit, Melbourne, FL
2004
Arrowmont School of Art and Crafts Summer Faculty Exhibit, Gatlinburg, TN
Strawbridge 4 Exhibit (Four Person Exhibition), Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL
Wonderful World of Water, Lake Wales Art Center, Lake Wales, FL
2002
Arrowmont School of Art and Crafts Summer Faculty Exhibit, Gatlinburg, TN
Oils and Spoils: Nancy and Rick Dillen (Two-Person Exhibition), Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, Melbourne, FL
2001
Nancy Dillen (Solo Exhibition), Brevard Community College: Guest Artist Series, Palm Bay, FL
2000
In Appreciation, Maitland Art Center, Maitland, FL
1999
Visual Resonance (Three Person Exhibition), Atlantic Center for the Arts, Harris House New Smyrna Beach, FL
Arrowmont School of Art and Crafts Summer Faculty Exhibit, Gatlinburg, TN
Journeys (Two Person Exhibition), Cocoa Beach Library, Cocoa Beach, FL
1998
Made in Florida, Works from the Permanent Collection, Center for the Arts Off Center Gallery, Indian River Mall, Vero Beach, FL
1997
Arrowmont School of Art and Crafts Summer Faculty Exhibit, Gatlinburg, TN
1995
Bold by Color (Solo Exhibition), Tallahassee Regional Airport, Tallahassee, FL
Bold by Color, Nancy Dillen and Duncan McClellan (Two Person Exhibition), Tallahassee City Hall, Tallahassee, FL
1995
Arrowmont School of Art and Crafts Summer Faculty Exhibit, Gatlinburg, TN
Art in Gadsden, Quincy, FL.
A Company of Women, Ridge Art Association, Winter Haven, FL
Florida Competitive, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
1994
Arrowmont School of Art and Crafts Summer Faculty Exhibit, Gatlinburg, TN
Shakespeare at City Hall, Terrace Gallery, Orlando City Hall, Orlando, FL
Skirting the Issue, Terrace Gallery, Orlando City Hall, Orlando, FL
1993
4th Annual Biennial Juried Art Exhibit, Polk Museum, Lakeland, FL
Ten Women in Art Exhibition History: Founding member (1984-Present)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
2006-Present Art Professor Emeriti, Eastern Florida State College (Brevard Community College), Melbourne, FL
2006-1971 Professor of Art and Program Coordinator, Brevard Community College, Melbourne, FL
2023, 2018, 2016, 2012 , 2008, 2006, 2004, 2002, 1999, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1991
Summer Art Faculty, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
1988 Elderhostel Art Faculty, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
