About
Armed with a BFA she made art and pursued a variety of related endeavors. She became an art critic for the alternative weekly, Worcester Magazine. She owned and operated a small neon sign business. She started the Blackstone Print Studio, an atelier created to provide state of the art facilities to local artists and to introduce the medium to interested newcomers. There she conducted and arranged workshops and classes and organized annual exhibits highlighting the work of the Blackstone Printers. Her own work continued to develop, moving between two and three dimensions and with a variety of media including old clothes, shoes, roofing lead, aluminum screening, wire, bones, nails, pins, buttons, Kleenex, to name a few. Within this array of materials, her art is about the transformation of the commonplace—the retelling of those histories into more modern parables. Much of her art draws on the human body and its many layers. Her background in medicine remains an important reference for her inquiries into the body and beyond-- namely, into that which makes us human. Nina lives and works on Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
Selected Juried Exhibitions
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Nina Fletcher was born and brought up in the in the Boston area. After a liberal arts education she lived in Africa for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer, then migrated to Berkeley California where she became a Nurse Practitioner and practiced for several years. Returning to New England she changed course. Following a long and latent passion, she went to art school at Massachusetts College of art, where she majored in painting, studying under the late Rob Moore.