Nancy Bechtol

Chicago, artist, photographer, video artist, educator. Video and Experimental Digital Photo/Imaging take on a quality of manifested journeys. These images portray times of a transformative experience. These transformative experiences are the key points found in all our lives where the direction shifts, not always by our own choice. Best thought of as "times of change". Those times which try our very core of who we think we are--our bodies, our minds, our spirits. we are all connected.

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Master of Fine Arts, Video Production/TimeArts/VFX 1984
Master of Education, Loyola University. Interdisciplinary Arts /Curriculum & Instruction 1980
Roosevelt University, BA. Fine Arts and Education Chicago Community Access Network TV. CAN TV. Certified Independent Producer
Midwest Regional Fellow/National Endowment for the Arts, 1984
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship - Media Art, 1993 Neighborhood Arts Program Artist/Grant Video. Dept. of Cultural Affairs, City of Chicago.-at Lathrop Homes, Chicago Housing Authority (CHA).1987American Video Conference Award sponsored by American Film Institute/Billboard Magazine,
1990Tokyo International Video Festival, Special Merit Award in Experimental VideoArt
Whos Who in the Midwest/ Whos Who Emerging Leaders.
1990-1991.Illumina Teachers Award. Artists Call for Justice Project 2001
Americas Registry of Outstanding Professionals

2021
Stola Contemporary Art
"Liberty and Justice for All?" curated by Kelly Matthews

2020
“All in the Same Boat – or are we? Artists respond to the first 6 months of 2020”A diverse group of over 50 Chicago area artists together in response to the pandemic isolation, climate change, and the peaceful and violent protests engendered by the loss of lives triggered by police brutality against African Americans
All who attend must practice social distancing

Koehnline Museum of Art. International Juried Exhibition of Art by Women. 'Where Are We Now?: Activism of the Everyday"

Oct, 2018 Chicago Society of Artists Interprets Illinois
Bicentennial Vanderpoel Art Museum

Sep, 2018 Nevertheless She Persisted: Women of Courage, Tenacity and Strength
Koehnline Museum of Art
2019

Sage Gallery - Lakeside Arts Park at the Dole Mansion June 7, 2019 - August 2, 2019
Chicago Society of Artists

August House Studio May 17, 2019 - June 23, 2019
Birds I Have Known
Special birdhouse exhibition and radio interviews

Mar, 2017 OPPOSITIONS
Jackson Junge Gallery

Mar, 2017 Chicago Society of Artists Presents “A Spring Exhibit” at Joliet’s Gallery Seven

Mar, 2017 Persistence of Vision: Scene & unseen
2 Person show....