Nancy Grace Horton
Nancy Grace Horton photographs in a natural style, rich in content and meaning. Her subjects vary and her vision is clean and deliberate. She has traveled literally around the world taking photographs, completing difficult projects in Cuba and rural Mexico, and is featured in the book "Ghana: An African Portrait Revisited." At the same time she is well known for work in her home town, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and is author of the local bestseller "Portsmouth," a book of her images published in 2007 by Commonwealth Editions. She has been awarded numerous grants including the NH State Council on the Arts Entrepreneurial and Mini Grants and the Cultural Exchange Grant from the Cultural Commission of New Hampshire, she has been a finalist in the Charitable Foundations Artist Advancement Grant.
Since the early 1990’s Nancy has worked with editorial clients including The Boston Globe, Yankee Magazine and Rolling Stone Magazine. A favorite assignment is shooting live stage performances of world-class musicians, comedians, and dancers. She has a stock file of over 200 she has documented at performance venues around New England. In addition, her natural journalistic style attracts agencies and designers in need of fresh images to effectively illustrate their projects.
Nancy founded the Learning to See Projects, workshops that bring teens, senior citizens, and community members together to experiment and collaborate while learning the art of telling a story with pictures. Each project features a final presentation including multi-media exhibits designed to both show off students' work and connect them to their communities. She has also created books, exhibitions and new media cultural exchanges via the Internet.
She is a Roster Artist AIE, Artist in Education, and CA, Community Artist with the NH State Council on the Arts. Recently completed projects include an installation with the Art Allstate students at Worcester Museum of Art, Heartwood Colleges’ Artwood Bound, and connecting a small village in Mexico with Spanish students in New Hampshire. Upcoming Learning to See Projects with the Grafton County Senior Center and teens in the outskirts of New Orleans.
Work in progress includes further study of narrative portraiture and meditative, storytelling images that explore the sense of curiosity and mystery through in-camera techniques, traditional photographic methods and a touch of technology. A documentary project completed this year is Being 13 a book of portraits of a young woman over the course of time during her year being 13.
Nancy is an Instructor at Maine College of Art and Heartwood College.