Nancy received her BFA in 1973 and continued her jewelry education at the “Jewellery Workshop & Gallery” in NYC under the instruction of Fredricka Kulicke and Joseph English. She taught jewelry making at her home studio until moving to San Francisco in 1979.

Nancy continued her education at the California College of Arts and Crafts and at the Revere Academy of Goldsmithing (now the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts.) At the same time she was head bench jeweler in the repair and custom design department for a well known retail jewelry store in the San Francisco Bay Area. (At that time she was working under the name Nancy Hannigan). She also taught jewelry making at a local crafts center.

Nancy now lives and works in Princeton, NJ. She has taught jewelry making workshops at:

• Arts Council of Princeton
• West Windsor Arts Council
• Lawrenceville Main Street Artists Network Gallery
• Princeton University, Wilson Residential College

Nancy is also an instructor at the Kulicke Jewelry School Parsipanny, NJ.

Individual instruction is also available in Princeton, NJ.

"I base my enameled pieces on colorful, organic forms that seem to float over pools of texture and light.

My love for combining color is reflected in my cloisonne enamels which are based on organic forms and fluid lines. In my pieces I "float" opaque colors over clear, textured backgrounds; "tide pools" of objects in water or natural forms against a sky. I take traditional enameling a step further into an abstract approach.

The enamels are a combination of cloisonne and baisse taille techniques. In cloisonne precious metal wire is formed into cloisons to hold the enamel. Baise taille allows a textured surface to show through transparent enamel thereby enhancing the play of light across the surface.

Although the techniques are ancient my approach is contemporary."