Nicora Gangi: Born in Indiana and educated at the Hartford Art School(Hartford Connecticut) Montclair State College and Syracuse University(BFA 1974 and MFA 1976). Married to Bruce Manwaring and resides in Syracuse, N Y.
Featured artist in American Artist magazine(2003). Awarded the Grand Prize (2005) in The Pastel Journal. Featured artist in International Artist magazine (2006). Published in Pure Color (Spring 2006), and Finding Your Visual Voice (February 2007). Awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award (summer 2006). Published work on book jackets by Crown & Covenant Press and Shepherd Press (2007) Recently published in Discipleship Journal July/August 2008. Lecturing regionally and nationally as a visiting artist at colleges and universities and artist’s guilds on such varied topics as, “Spiritual Symbolism in Art” and “Personal Expression Through The Pastel Medium.”
PastelI have tried in this drawing to capture sound . . . the sound of the horses and the sound of the bees. There are three bees, representing the trinity, diligence and faithful industry while the beetle crawling into the book represents evil, always eager to...
Knowledge In SightWe know the story: how Eve and Adam and the serpent in the Garden of Eden tempting them to take and eat the forbidden fruit. Fruit traditionally symbolizes that which was forbidden and the transience of life. The bitten fruit rests on the edge of the...
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