James Chase
Artist in Residency
2017-2018
James Chase is the Director of Community Education and Visual Arts Faculty at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, as well as a board member for Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. He’s a national and international exhibiting artist, merging painting, printmaking and photography with social engagement practices. Since 2009, he has been featured in over 50 art exhibitions. Recent exhibitions include Picked Six Contemporary Art Month in San Antonio 2015 and Memory Palace 2016at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, OH. Recent solo exhibitions include Echoes at the RMFA and Kill The Lights at South Plains College in Levelland, TX.
Nancy Horton
Artist in Residency
2016-2017
Nancy Grace Horton holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, now Lesley University College of Art and Design, and has been working as a freelance photographer and educator for over 20 years. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including Artists Entrepreneurial Grants from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, where she is also an Arts in Education Rostered Artist. She has been featured on Boston Chronicle and in several solo shows including NESOP’s Garner Center, Simmons College Trustman Art Gallery, Engine Art Gallery, Merrimack College McCoy Art Gallery and The Griffin Museum of Photography. Horton is known for her work that engages her viewers in Feminist dialog. She lives between Maine and New Hampshire and takes yearly visits to rural Mexico where she also conducts her photo-based cultural exchange projects for kids called Learning to See that also explores gender roles using photography and book making. She is known locally for her popular photo book “Portsmouth”.