Nancy Lamers is an explorer in a variety of visual arts media. Lamers’ areas of specialization include watercolor, oil, acrylic, and encaustic paint media. She continually exhibits both nationally and internationally and has received numerous awards for her painting. Her paintings are in over 50 collections, including patrons/installations in Italy, Japan, and Chile.

Ongoing interests are personal development through media exploration as a painter and travel and study of art and history/culture worldwide as a means of understanding self, history and cultural context. Nancy Lamers is an associate professor of art at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and teaches introductory studio art, 2d design, painting, art history, and international study courses. She is an active member of Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors, serving as past chair of the Southeast chapter. She is a member of the College Art Association, National and Wisconsin Art Education Associations, Americans for the Arts, the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee, and the Milwaukee Artists Resource Network. She has served as a juror for local exhibitions.

Nancy Lamers’ paintings come as a result of connecting personal family history to both art historical and other intriguing imagery found as a result of travel experiences. Visual and conceptual connections are made between the images that are chosen for juxtaposition. Of particular interest is how bodily postures and facial expressions communicate meaning to an audience. Gender role stances and the nature of each person’s “being” in the world in a particular time and place are explored.

In a new series of self portraits, Lamers reflects on the nature of her own presence and being in the world. The focus is upon the nature of aging and the perception of the passage of time. Youth is compared to middle age in a thoughtful yet humorous manner.