“You’ll NEVER be an artist.”  (quote from my high school art teacher)

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 an immature, stubborn girl needed to catapult her into the field of art. The day after receiving an UW-Madison Art Education degree I married a classmate, Rick Nass, and three years later we birthed Ampersand, our illustration business. After forty years we continue to draw and paint, now from our home on the banks of the Wisconsin River in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin.