Biography

Nan Freeman was born in Houston. She is widely known for her dramatically large charcoal drawings of small-scale, intimate objects such as tiaras, jewelry, hair ornaments, and silverware, which carry great social and cultural potency. She sustains an active record of exhibitions nationally and internationally including recent one-person exhibitions in: The Museum of Fine Arts Boston; The Cheekwood Museum Nashville; The Gibson House Museum Boston; The Baer Art Centre, Hofsos Iceland; Galerie Nev Istanbul, and Galerie al Riwaq, Manama Bahrain. She has held numerous exhibitions of her work in collaboration with Feridun Ozgoren, including at the Fitchburg Museum, and the National Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Istanbul. Her works are in numerous public and private collections worldwide. Permanent public art projects include her “Bridge of Hope” mural at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston. She has received two grants from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, two Fulbright Fellowships, grants from the governments of Spain and Bahrain, and the Massachusetts Council of the Arts and Humanities; as well as three Herbert Cushman Fund Faculty Grants from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Freeman earned her undergraduate degree at Smith College, her Master’s at the University of Pennsylvania, and her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the Department of Architecture. She has taught at Harvard University, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wellesley College, Brandeis University, the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Marmara in Istanbul, and Bogazici University in Istanbul. Currently she is senior faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Nan Freeman writes and speaks frequently on her own work, on contemporary art and artists, and on topics in popular culture, most recently Blue Jeans; America’s National Pants (2007).

Nan Freeman painting

Nan Freeman painting Ferruginous Hawk, Bridge of Hope Mural, 2005
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Massachusetts

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Dr. Nan B. Freeman, PhD.  -  Curriculum Vitae 2008

 

                  telephone USA (617) 561-1166

                  email: nf@nanfreeman.com

 

Nan Freeman Studios

63 Maverick Square, #12

East Boston Massachusetts,

02128 USA

 

School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Director, The Post-Baccalaureate Program

230 The Fenway

Boston Massachusetts

02115 USA

 

 

Commissioned Permanent Works of Art

 

THE BRIDGE OF HOPE

Mural, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Massachusetts USA. 2005

The mural occupies 200 feet of public hallway in the third floor of the Amory Building at the Brigham , bridging to the Dana
Farber Cancer Institute. The painting depicts a hundred and fifty flying birds,
each carrying plants that have been historically associated with medicine. Commissioned by the Friends of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Mrs. Estrelllita Karsh, head of
The Art Committee.

 

KALCO CHANDELIERS    

Permanent installation of drawings, Dallas World Trade Center, Dallas Texas USA. 2003.

A suite of drawings depicting ornate chandeliers.; Kalco showroom. Commissioned by Kalco Lighting.

 

 

Solo Art Exhibitions

 

2007:      BAER Art Center, Hofsos, Iceland; Inaugural Exhibition for the opening of the Center.

                                   Nan Freeman : The Best Horse In The Country, A project about the Icelandic Horse, based on travel and
                                   research in  Iceland. The exhibition featured
  life-sized drawings and paintings of outstanding individual
                                   Icelandic horses.
Commissioned and sponsored by Steinnun Jonsdottir of BAER.          

2004:       The Gibson House Museum, Boston Massachusetts USA: Treasures of the Gibson House;

                                   Drawings by Nan Freeman. Permanent solo exhibition in the museum.          

                  Shreve, Crump, and Lowe Jewelers, Boston Massachusetts USA: Drawings by Nan Freeman; Treasures of the
                                   Gibson House

                  Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville Tennessee, USA: Nan Freeman; Nashville Hats

2002:       Victoria Munroe Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA: Nan Freeman; Hat Drawings

2001:       Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA: The Artist In Her Studio: Nan Freeman Drawing

                  Brandeis University, Waltham Massachusetts USA: Jewelry Drawings by Nan Freeman

2000:       Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA: Tempted By Tiaras: Drawings by Nan Freeman

                  Al-Riwaq Art Gallery, Manama, Bahrain: Solo Exhibition of Nan Freeman

                  Antics, Nashville Tennessee, USA: Nan Freeman; Heirloom Portraits           

1997:       Tiffany & Company, Boston Massachusetts USA: The Art of Tiffany Flatware: Recent Drawings by Nan Freeman

                 Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston Massachusetts USA: Nan Freeman - Recent Work

                  American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge Massachusetts USA: Drawings for Euripides’ The Bacchae

1990:       Galerie Nev, Istanbul Turkey: Nan Freeman - Paintings

1985:       Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston Massachusetts USA: Nan Freeman, Paintings

1984:       Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York New York USA: Nan Freeman - Recent Work

1980:       Impressions Gallery, Boston Massachusetts USA: Nan Freeman - This Year’s Work

1979:       Pine Manor College, Brookline Massachusetts USA: Nan Freeman - A Few Years’ Work

1978:       Flag Gallery, Boston Massachusetts USA: Nan Freeman - Unnumbered Fragments

1976:       Schloss Laxenburg, Vienna Austria, Ilasa Institut: Nan Freeman- Arghyros

                 Galerie Gras, Vienna Austria: Nan Freeman-Arghyros; Zeichnungen

1975:       Boston Museum of Fine Arts School Gallery, Boston Massachusetts USA: Nan (Freeman) Arghyros ; Drawings

                  Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Massachusetts USA: Nan (Freeman)
                                   Arghyros-Drawings

 

 

Duo Exhibitions: Art in Collaboration with Feridun Ozgoren

 

2001:       Beit al-Quran, Manama Bahrain

1996:       Taksim Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul Turkey

1995:       National Museum of Bahrain Art Center, Manama Bahrain

                  Akbank Galleries, Istanbul Turkey

                  Akbank Galleries, Adana Turkey

                  Turkish Educational and Cultural Foundation, Konya Turkey

1994:       Yildiz Palace, Research Center for Islamic History, Art, and Culture, Istanbul Turkey

1992:       Esther Klein Art Gallery, University City Science Center, Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA:

                                    Feridun Ozgoren - Nan Freeman

1991:       Pyramid Atlantic Studios, Rockville Maryland USA

1989:       The Letterpress Guild, Boston Massachusetts USA (studio exhibition)

                  Yildiz Palace, Research Center for Islamic History, Art, and Culture; Istanbul Turkey:  Feridun Ozgoren -

                                    Nan Freeman: Ebru, Calligraphy, and Drawing

1988:       National Museum of Painting and Sculpture/ Dolmabahce Palace, Istanbul Turkey:

                                    Feridun Ozgoren - Nan Freeman, Exhibition of Ebru with Drawing and Calligraphy

                  Galerie Nev, Istanbul Turkey: Feridun Ozgoren - Nan Freeman

                  Society of Boston Printers, Boston Massachusetts USA (studio exhibition)

                  Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg Massachusetts USA: The Work of Feridun Ozgoren and Nan Freeman: Turkish Ebru

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2007:        Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA; aculty Exhibition

2005:        Trinity Church, Boston Massachusetts USA; Trinity Inspires.

2004:        Baton Rouge Symphony Guild, Baton Rouge Louisiana USA

2003:        artSPACE 16, Malden Massachusetts USA; Photos from Third Space

2003:       Design Show House, Nashville Tennessee USA

                  Fisk University, Nashville Tennessee USA

2002:       Baton Rouge Symphony Guild, Baton Rouge Louisiana USA

2001:       Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA: The Seventeenth Drawing Show

2000:       Wenham Museum, Wenham Massachusetts USA: Wenham Museum Invitational Art Show

1998:        The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell Massachusetts USA: Self Amused II

                  The College of New Jersey, Ewing New Jersey USA: National Drawing ( finalist)

1997:       Tufts University Gallery, Tufts University, Medford Massachusetts USA: The Dainty Hand

                  National Organization of Women, Boston Massachusetts USA; Roe vs. Wade

1996:       Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA: Drawings

1995, and every year from 1990: Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts,

                                    Boston Massachusetts USA: December Exhibition

1993:       Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts USA: Drawings

1991:       Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts USA: Harvard Faculty Exhibition

                  Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA:

                                    Faculty Exhibition

1987:       Boston Public Library, Boston Massachusetts USA: Drawings From The Collection

                  DeCordova Museum, Lincoln Massachusetts USA: Drawings From Boston

1986:       Newton Art Center, Newton Massachusetts USA: New Works; Roz Ablow, Alexandra Antic, Nan Freeman

1985:       Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, New York USA: Opening Exhibition; New Paintings,

                                    New Drawings, New Sculpture, New Prints

                  Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Massachusetts USA; Art Trek

1984:       Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA: Emerging Massachusetts Painters

                  Wellesley College Art Museum, Wellesley Massachusetts USA, Five On View

                  Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, New York USA: Gallery Artists

                  Boston College Art Gallery, Newton Massachusetts USA: Skeet Shoot

                  Lopoukhine Gallery, Boston Massachusetts USA: More Than Drawing

1983:       Impressions Gallery, Boston Massachusetts USA: New Paintings

                  Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, New York USA: Drawing, Watercolor, Collage

                  Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, New York USA: Gallery Group Exhibition

                  Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, New York USA: Inaugural Exhibition

                  Impressions Gallery, Boston Massachusetts USA: The New Year

                  Peters Schoenberger and Partners, Munich Germany: The Young Americans             

1982:       Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA: A Private Vision: Contemporary Art From The Graham

                                   Gund Collection                  

                  Tufts University Gallery, Medford Massachusetts USA: A Boston School: Four Artists

1981:       Clark Gallery, Lincoln Massachusetts USA: Drawing: New Directions 1981

1980:       Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn New York USA: American Drawings In Black And White, 1970-1980

                  Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton Massachusetts USA: Drawing

                  Impressions Gallery, Boston Massachusetts USA: Drawing

1979:       Creiger-Sesen Gallery, Boston Massachusetts USA: Drawings

1978:       Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA: Nan Freeman, Barnett Rubenstein

                                    and Elaine O’Neill: Drawings and Photographs

                  Boston University Art Gallery, Boston Massachusetts USA: Six Artists

                  Impressions Gallery, Boston Massachusetts USA: Drawings, Monotypes, Prints

                  Impressions Gallery, Boston Massachusetts USA: Drawing Now

1977:       Boston Museum of Fine Arts School Gallery, Boston Massachusetts USA: Faculty Exhibition

1975:       DeCordova Museum, Lincoln Massachusetts USA: New England Open Drawing Competition

                  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Massachusetts USA: The Food Show

 

 

Visiting Artist Engagements

 

2001:       Brandeis University, Women’s Studies Research Center, Waltham Massachusetts USA

1997:       Harvard University / Uludag University Summer Institute, Cunda Turkey

1996:       Bermuda Society of Arts, Hamilton Bermuda

1995        Bahrain National Museum Art Centre, Manama Bahrain

1993:       Smith College, Northampton Massachusetts USA

1991:       Pyramid Atlantic Studios, Rockville Maryland USA

1990:       University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA

1988:       Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg Massachusetts USA

1987:       Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Illinois USA

 

 

Grants, Awards, and Prizes

 

2007:       BAER Art Centre, Invitational Project Grant for Exhibition: The Best Horse in the Country.

2005:       School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston: Faculty Grant for Bayou City, a photography project  in Houston Texas

2004:       Invitational Project Grant, Reykjavik, Iceland

2002-2007: The Gibson House Museum, Boston Massachusetts: Resident Artist

2000:       School of the Museum of Fine Arts Faculty Enrichment Grant

1995:       Ministry of Information, State of Bahrain: Visiting Artists Support Funding

1992:       Herbert E. Cushman Fund Faculty Award, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1988:       Fulbright Fellowship

1987:       Fulbright Fellowship

1985:       Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities Grant: The Artists’ Studios Project

1984:       Wellesley College Faculty Travel Grant

                  Government of Spain Travel and Research Grant

1982:       Andrew Mellon Foundation Research Grant

1981:       Andrew Mellon Foundation Wellesley College Faculty Grant

                  Member of ALPHA PSI, Honor Society for the Arts

 

 

Artworks in Museums and Major Corporate Collections

 

BAER Art Centre, Hofsos, Iceland

The Bahrain National Museum, Manama Bahrain

The Boston Public Library Art Collection, Boston Massachusetts USA

The Brigham and Women’s Hospital, The Bridge of Hope, Amory Building. Boston Massachusetts USA

The Brigham and Women’s Hospital, The Bretholtz Center, Boston Massachusetts USA

Brandeis University, Waltham Massachusetts USA

The Chemical Bank of New York, New York, New York USA

The Christian Science Center, Boston Massachusetts USA

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston Massachusetts USA

EPI Associates, Boston Massachusetts USA

The Federal Reserve Bank, Boston Massachusetts USA

Fidelity Investments, Boston Massachusetts USA

Fidelity Investments, London England

The Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts USA

Goodwin, Proctor, and Hoar, Boston Massachusetts USA

The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts USA

The Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville Tennessee USA

E.F. Hutton, New York New York USA

Kalco Lighting, Dallas World Trade Center, Dallas Texas

Margaret Clapp Library Special Collections, Wellesley College, Wellesley Massachusetts USA

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Art Collections, Cambridge Massachusetts USA

Wellington Management, Boston Massachusetts USA

Research Center for Islamic History, Art, and Culture, Istanbul Turkey,

The Royal Hospital, Yanbu Saudi Arabia

 

 

Artworks in Selected Private Collections

 

H.H. Shaikha Sabika bint Ibraham Al Khalifa, Bahrain

Shaikha Mai AlKhalifa, Bahrain

Marcy Abbrecht, Wellesley Massachusetts USA

Mehmet and Nancy Atakan, Istanbul Turkey

Zahra Faridany Akhavan, London England

Elizabeth Broyhill, New York, New York USA

Charlene Engelhard, Concord Massachusetts USA

Gabriella di Ferrari, New York New York USA

Graham Gund, Cambridge Massachussetts USA

Herman Gras, Vienna Austria

Susan Kaplan, Brookline Massachusetts

Farunissa Khanachet, Cambridge Massachusetts

Kyra Montague, Brookline Massachusetts USA

Bill and Nancy Osgood, Vermont USA

Stephen and Susan Paine, Cambridge Massachusetts USA

Jim and Marilyn Simonds, New York, New York USA

Marta Villavecchia, Barcelona Spain

 

 

Professional Work: University Teaching

 

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA: current nstructor of Drawing

Instructor of Drawing at Tufts University

Director of the Program in Post-Baccalaureate Studies

Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts USA; Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, 1991 - 1994

Bogazici University, Istanbul Turkey; Department of Western Language and Culture, 1987 - 1989

University of Marmara, Istanbul Turkey; School of Fine Arts, 1987 - 1989

Wellesley College, Wellesley Massachusetts USA; Art Department, 1979 - 1987

School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston Massachusetts USA; Drawing Area, 1976 - 1982

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Massachusetts USA; Department of Architecture, 1978

Brandeis University, Waltham Massachusetts USA; Art Department, 1977

Boston University, School of Arts and Sciences; Boston Massachusetts USA, 1977

 

 

Professional Work: Artists’ Career Counseling and Development

 

Independent individual consulting; 1999 - ongoing.

 

 

Professional Work: Fine Arts Curatorial, and Consulting

 

Urban Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA, 1993 -1996: Consultant

Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg Massachusetts USA, 1990-1991; Curator.

Committee for a Contemporary Museum, Istanbul Turkey, American Consulate Istanbul 1987. Member of the Planning Committee

ProArts Forum, Boston Massachusetts USA, 1987; Member of the Planning Committee.

Artists’ Studios Project of the Friends of Boston Art, Boston Massachusetts USA, 1986 - 1987:   Project Director

Massport Public Works of Art Project, Boston Massachusetts USA 1986-1987 Juror

Contemporary Art of the Commonwealth, Washington DC USA, 1986: Curator.

James Simons Art Collection, New York New York USA 1985: Advisor

EPI Real Estate Development, Boston Massachusetts USA1984 -1985: Consultant for Planning and Design of artists’ studio/lofts

The Engelhard Award, Boston Massachusetts USA, 1984-1985: Member of the Awards Board

Dr. Elizabeth Holt, Cambridge Massachusetts USA 1973 The Triumph of Art For The Public: Editor

Harvard University Joint Archaeological Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus1972: Draftsman

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Committee on the Visual Arts, Hayden Gallery (now the List

Visual Arts Center) Cambridge Massachusetts USA, 1969 - 1972: Registrar of the MIT Art

Collection and Assistant Director of Exhibitions.

Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, 1967: Exhibitions Assistant.

Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge Massachusetts USA, Fellowships Juror.

 

 

Education

 

B.A, Smith College

ALPHA PSI, Honor Society for the Arts

M.A, University of Pennsylvania

Graduate study in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking; School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Graduate study in classical and modern art history, Harvard University

Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning

 

 

Artist’s Statements Interviews and Lectures:

 

2006:       NAN FREEMAN; THE “BRIDGE OF HOPE” MURAL: A CASE STUDY OF PRINCIPLES FOR

                  ART IN HOSPITALS. Paper presented at Southeastern College Art Conference, Nashville

                  Tennessee USA, May 2006, in THE AFFECTING ROLE OF VISUAL ARTS IN HEALTHCARE SETTINGS,

                  Prof. Reinhild Janzen, Washburn University.

                                    A paper discussing the impact and implications of artwork within hospital settings,

                  drawn from the artist’s experience conceiving, designing, and painting the Bridge of Hope,

                  a major mural painting occupying a two- hundred foot corridor space linking the Brigham

                  and Women’s Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Insitute, Boston.

2006:       “Making Art and Life”; lecture, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah Georgia USA,

                                    April 2006

2005:       “Nan Freeman: Current Projects in Drawing and Photography”; lecture, School of the Museum

                                    of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA, September 2005

2004:      “The Bridge of Hope”; lecture, Friends of the Brigham, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston

                                   Massachusetts USA, October 2004

2003:       “Tiaras of the Rodeo Queens”; lecture, Friends of the Hills, Fountain Hills, Arizona USA

                  Interview with Smoki Bacon, Boston Cable Public TV, April 2004

2002:       “The Hat Drawings”; lecture, Smith College Club of Boston, April 2002

                  “Nan Freeman: Drawing”; lecture, Boston University Women’s Council, Fisk House, Boston Massachusetts USA

                  “Queen Victoria: Her Tiaras”; lecture, The Victorian Society, The Gibson House Museum, Boston Massachusetts USA

2001:       “My Work: Women’s Things”; lecture, Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center, Waltham

                                   Massachusetts USA, May 2001

                  “Drawing Jewelry for the Ladies of Bahrain”; lecture, Women’s Travel Club of Boston,

                                   Weston Massachusetts USA, October 2001

2000:       “Nan Freeman: An Artist Looks at the Museum”; lecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA,
                                   November 2000

                  “Nan Freeman; Drawings”; lecture, MFA Faculty Lecture Series, School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
                                   Boston Massachusetts, USA, September 2000

                  “Nan Freeman - My Recent Work”, lecture, Bharain Society of Fine Arts, Manama Bahrain, June 2000

                  “Diamond Tiaras and Easter Hats: Women’s High Culture in Art”; lecture, Antics, Nashville Tennessee, April 2000

                  “Drawing Big: Small Things on a Grand Scale”, lecture, Antics, Nashville Tennessee, April 2000

                  “Born With A Silver Spoon”; lecture, Antics, Nashville Tennessee, April 2000

                  “ Nan Freeman: My Work Now”; lecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA, March 2000

                  “ ‘Tempted by Tiaras’: Nan Freeman on Drawing”; lecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA,
                                    March 2000

                  “ ‘Tempted by Tiaras’: Drawing Diamonds”; lecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA, March 2000

1998:       “An Artist Looks at The Collections”; lecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA, March 1998

1997:       “Making Desire: The Problem of Art making”; lecture for the Forum on Desire, School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,                                    Boston Massachusetts USA, September 1997

                  “Our Work and Art History”; lecture at the Harvard University - Uludag UniversitySummer Institute, Cunda Turkey,
                                   August 1997

                  “Our Work in Eastern and Western Art History”; lecture, Northeastern University, Boston Massachusetts, April 1997

1995:       “Our Work and the Studio Process” video for the Bahrain National Museum Art Center, Manama Bahrain, January 1995

                   Report on the Bahrain National Museum Exhibition, Bahrain Television Arabic Language News, Manama Bahrain, January 1995

                  Interview at the Bahrain National Museum Exhibition, Bahrain Television English Language News, Manama Bahrain,

                                    January 1995

                  “Our Work in Eastern and Western Art History”;lecture, National Museum of Bahrain Art Center, Manama Bahrain,

                                    January 1995

                  “Our Work: The Techniques of Drawing and Ebru”; lecture, National Museum of Bahrain Art Center, Manama Bahrain,                                     January 1995

                  “Our Work in Collaboration”; lecture, National Museum of Bahrain Art Center, ManamaBahrain, January 1995

1994:       “The Art of Ebru”; lecture, Turkish American Cultural Society, Boston Massachusetts USA, December 1994

                  Interview, Yildiz Palace Exhibition, TRT Channel 2, Istanbul Turkey, January 1994

1993:       “My Work, and My Work in Collaboration”; lecture, Smith College Art Department,  Northampton Massachusetts USA,                                     March 1993

1992:       “My Art in Context”; presentation at the international symposium Art Now: Why, How, And For

                  Whom?, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts USA, February 1992

1991:       “Our Work in Collaboration”; lecture, Pyramid Atlantic Studios, Rockville Maryland USA, October 1991

                  “Our Work and Turkish Ebru”; lecture, World Affairs Council, Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA, February 1991

                  “Our Work and Turkish Ebru”; lecture, Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA,                                     February 1991

1988:       “Our Work and the Studio Process”; video presented at the National Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Istanbul
                                   Turkey, November 1988

                  “My Work”; lecture, National Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Dolmabahce Palace,

                                    Istanbul Turkey, April 1988

                  “My Work and Contemporary American Art”; lecture, Department of Architecture,

                                    Middle East Technical University, Ankara Turkey, March 1988

                  “Collaboration”; lecture at the exhibition The Work Of Feridun Ozgoren And Nan Freeman ,

                                    Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts USA, January 1988

1987:       “My Work and Contemporary American Painting”; lecture, American Consulate Library, Istanbul Turkey,
                                   December 1987

                  “My Work”; lecture, American Cultural Center, Ankara Turkey, November 1987

                  “My Work”; lecture to the Faculty of the School of Fine Arts, University of Marmara, Istanbul Turkey November 1987

1984:       “My Work”; lecture, Society Tau Zeta Epsilon of Wellesley College, Wellesley Massachusetts USA, October 1984

                  “My Work and Painting in Boston”; lecture at the exhibition Emerging Massachusetts Painters at the Boston Museum of

                                    Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts USA, October 1984

                  “My Work”; lecture, Wellesley College Art Club, Wellesley Massachusetts USA,February 1984

1981:       “My Work, Art, and Art History”,;lecture, Wellesley College Art Forum, Wellesley Massachusetts USA, April 1981

1979:       “My Work; Impulse and Image”; lecture at the exhibition, Pine Manor College, Brookline Massachusetts USA,
                                   September 1979

 

 

Bibliography on Nan Freeman

 

FILM/VIDEO

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Artist In Her Studio: Nan Freeman Drawing, Boston Massachusetts

USA, 2001(Video, 8 minutes; videographer John Corso)

 

BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Allara, Pamela; A Boston School: Four Artists, Medford Massachusetts USA, 1982

Baro, Gene; American Drawings in Black and White, Brooklyn New York USA, 1980

Belz, Carl, Kathy Halbreich, Kenworth Moffett, Elizabeth Sussman, and Diane Upright; A Private Vision:

Contemporary Art From The Graham Gund Collection, Boston Massachusetts USA, 1982

Boston Center for The Arts; The Boston Visual Artists’ Union Spring Exhibition, Boston Massachusetts USA, 1975

Boston City Hall Gallery; Boston Visual Artists’ City Hall Show, Boston Massachusetts USA, 1974

Boston Visual Artists’ Union; Works on Paper, Boston Massachusetts USA, 1974

DeCordova Museum; New England Open Drawing Competition, Lincoln Massachusetts USA, 1974

Denny, Walter B; Feridun Ozgoren and Nan Freeman: Ebru, Calligraphy, and Drawing, for the

National Art Gallery, Amman Jordan, (np mms.) 1995

Flag Gallery; Unnumbered Fragments, Boston Massachusetts USA, 1978

Fitchburg Art Museum; Turkish Ebru, Fitchburg Masachusetts USA , 1988

Gras, Herman; Nan Freeman - Arghyros: Der Flesh/Tablet Zyklus, Vienna Austria 1976

Hitchings, Sinclair, and Rachael Lafoe; Drawings From The Collection of the Boston Public Library,

Lincoln Massachusetts USA, 1987

Ilasa Institute; Nan Freeman, Vienna Austria, 1976

Impressions Gallery; This Year’s Work, Boston Massachusetts USA, 1980

IRCICA; Feridun Ozgoren and Nan Freeman, Ebru Calligraphy and Drawing, Istanbul Turkey, 1989

IRCICA; Feridun Ozgoren, Istanbul Turkey 1994

Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Nan Freeman Arghyros, Drawings, Cambridge Massachusetts USA, 1975

Museum School Gallery; Nan Freeman Arghyros and Sandi Sloan, Boston Massachusetts USA, 1975

National Museum of Painting and Sculpture; Feridun Ozgoren - Nan Freeman, Ebru With Drawingand Calligraphy
       Istanbul Turkey, 1988

Neeley, Ann; Drawing From Different Points of View, Milton Massachusetts USA, 1980

Peters Schoenberger & Cie; The Young Americans, Munich Germany, 1983

Powell, Joan; South Station Studio Show, Boston Massachusetts USA,1975

Ross, David, and Amy Lighthill (with statements by MFA Director Jan Fontein and critical essays by

Curators Theodore Stebbins, Elizabeth Sussman, et.al.); Boston Now/Emerging Massachusetts

Painters, Boston Massachusetts USA, 1984

Tasker, Rebecca; The Seventeenth Drawing Show, Boston Massachusetts USA, 2001

 

PRESS; REVIEWS AND ARTICLES

(AAK Staff Writer); Review of exhibition at Bahrain National Museums Art Center, Akhbar Al Khaleej (Manama Bahrain),
                  3 January 1995, p.12

(AA Staff Writer); Review of exhibition at Bahrain National Museums Art Center, Al Ayam (Manama, Bahrain), 3 January 1995

(AA Staff Writer); Review of Exhibition at Al-Riwaq Gallery, Manama Bahrain, Al Ayam, (Manama Bahrain), 23 June 2000

(AZT Staff Writer “E.G.”); “Galeriefeuhrer; Galerie Gras”, AZ Tagblatt fur Osterreich, (Vienna Austria), 17 May 1976, p.6

Baker, Kenneth; “Boston Art Arrives at South Station, and None Too Soon”, The Boston Phoenix, 6 November 1975, Arts &                                     Entertainment p.1

Barrett, Hannah; Interview With Nan Freeman, Cassandra Speaks (Boston Massachusetts) Winter 1992, p.5

Bisol, Anna; “East Meets West”, Lunenburg Review, February 1988

Blake, Ran; “The Third Stream”, The Bay State Banner, 23 January 1975

(BHP Staff Writer); “Major Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum American Drawings in Black and White”, Brooklyn Heights Pres, 27
                November 1980, p.10

Buchsbaum, E; “Sinvoll Geneutze Formentradition.” Weiner Zeitung (Vienna Austria) 25 April 1976, p.4

Crombie, Roger; “US Professor of Painting to Judge Autumn Show”, Ocean News (Hamilton Bermuda) 20 September 1996, p.1

(C Staff Writer); ”Nan Freeman Sergisi”, Cumhuriyet (Istanbul Turkey), 19 March 1990, p.5

Day, Meridith Fife; “Works on Paper Exhibited”, Newton Graphic, April 2-8, 1987, p.14

Donker, Peter; “Riotous Colors, Complex Patterns”, Worcester Sunday Telegram, 24 January 1988, p.4 ff.

Donmez, Canan; “Amerika’dan Haberler: Amerikan Basini bir Turk’u Ovuyor”, Hurriyet (Istanbul Turkey), 2 March 1988, p.5

Edwards, Philippa; “SMFA Voices: Nan Freeman” Museum School News, Vol.XXIV, Spring 2000

Espenhahn, Liselotte; “Nan Arghyros-Freeman In Der Galerie Gras”, Kurier Tageszeitung (Vienna Austria), 8 May 1976, p.31

Fox, Herbert; “On the Nashville Scene”, N FOCUS, (Nashville Tennessee) June 2000, p.35

Graney, Mary; “MFA Shows Freeman Art”, The Wellesley News, 21 Sept. 1984, p.6

Grant, Daniel; Education Supplement, Sunday New York Times, 7 January 2008

Gibb, Fiona; “Paper Marbling Designs No Chance Affair”, Hurriyet Weekley (Istanbul Turkey),21 August 1989

Hankins, April; “This Year’s Work, by Nan Freeman, and Recent Work by Harvey Goldman”, Sojourner, Vol. 6 No.5,
                 January 1981, p.11

(HG Staff Writer); “Still Life With Garlic by Nan (Freeman) Arghyros”, Harvard Gazette, 10 January 1975

Inal, Esin Tensi; “ABD’de Turkiye’yi ve Sanatini Tanitiyor”, Tercuman (Istanbul Turkey), 19 July 1993

Kaftan, Ekrem; “ABD’de Bir Turk Ebrucusu”, Turkiye (Istanbul Turkey), 12 July 1993

Kramer, Hilton; “American Drawings of the ‘Seventies at Brooklyn”, New York Times, 28 November 1980, Weekend section p.1

Larson, Kay; “Art Around Town”, The Real Paper, 7 November 1975, p.42

Larson, Kay; “Here, There, and Everywhere”, The Real Paper, 5 February 1975, p.22

McQuaid, Cate; “Hats Off To Freeman”, The Boston Globe, 6 April 2002, p.

Montague, Kyra; “Gallery Offers Ambitious Collection of Drawings”, The Brookline Ledger, 3 March, 1978, p.24

Nahum, Katherine; “Photography Inspires Show at Visual Artist’s Union” , The Newton Times, 4 July 1974, p.10

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(NKZ Staff Writer “E.M.”); “Galerie-Rundgang: Galerie Gras”, Neue Kronen Zeitung (Vienna Austria), 23 April 1976, p.13

Pappas, Christine; “Ebru Comes Off The Shelf”, Worcester Monthly, Vol 1, No.4, p.40

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Sanders, David; “Amy Lighthill: The MFA’s New Course In Art Of Today”, The World (Boston Massachusetts), 11 July 1984, p.3

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Taylor, Robert; ”Head for New England Drawing Show at DeCordova”, The Boston Sunday Globe, 7 July 1974, p. A-12

Taylor, Robert; “Critic’s Choice; Nan Freeman, Harvey Goldman”, The Boston Globe, 19 December 1980, p.38

Taylor, Robert; “Exhibits at ICA and MFA Give Local Artists Their Due”, The Boston Globe, July 1984

Taylor, Robert; “Alumnae at Wheaton, and a Wellesley Show”, The Boston Sunday Globe, 9 December 1984, p.B2

Taylor, Robert; “Boston Drawings a Rewarding Show”, The Boston Sunday Globe, 12 April 1987, p.B1

Temin, Christine; “Thirty Four Massachusetts Artists Selected for Shows”, The Boston Globe, April 1984

Temin, Christine; “Massachusetts Painters, From Polished To Primitive”, The Boston Sunday Globe, 1 July 1984, p. B1

Temin, Christine; “ ‘Own’ The Key Word For Artists”, The Boston Sunday Globe, 3 June 1984, p. B5

Temin, Christine; “Perspectives”, The Boston Globe, 9 April 1987, p.86

Temin, Christine; “Making Great Art From Ox Bile”, The Boston Globe, 21 January 1988, p.88 ff

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Turay, Anna; “Ebrulu Hat ve Desen Sergisi”, Cumhuriyet (Istanbul Turkey), 23 November 1988, p.1

(T Staff Writer); “Ozgoren ve Freeman’in eserleri Yildiz Sarayi cit Kasri’nda”, Tercuman (Istanbul Turkey), 9 March 1989, p.8

(TT Staff Writer); “The Turkish Art of Ebru in a Modern Light”, Turkey Today (Istanbul Turkey), March 1988

(T Staff Writer); ”Feridun Ozgoren’in ebru sergisini acan Vali Vural”, Turkiye, 8 March 1995,

(T Staff Writer); “Gelenege bagli yeni yorumlar”, Türkiye, 13 October 1996, p.10

(TT Staff Writer); “Hayden Corridor Show Features Nan (Freeman) Arghyros”, Tech Talk, 8 January 1975, p.2

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