2022 Juried Members' Exhibition

“You could NEVER be an artist”--my high school art teacher’s words. If you’ve ever been told you “can’t do” something, there swells an incredible motivation to reach for the unreachable, right? My teacher’s edict was just the impetus a stubborn teenager needed to catapult her into the field of art. The day after receiving a University of Wisconsin-Madison Art Education degree, I married a classmate, Rick Nass. Three years later we birthed Ampersand, our art business. After fifty-five years we continue to draw and paint, now from our home/studio in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin.