Nancy Nowacek

Nancy Nowacek is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, performance, and pedagogy, often with collaborative, public-facing projects. She was a past resident at Pioneer Works. Her work addresses urban waterways, climate change, aging, and the relationship between bodies and systems. She co-founded the art collective Works on Water in 2016. She has also held residencies and fellowships at Eyebeam, Recess, Montalvo, and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, and was Education-Artist-In-Residence at the Walker Art Center in 2020–2022. Nowacek teaches design courses at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. She holds MFA degrees from California College of the Arts and Virginia Commonwealth University.