{"id":10,"date":"2012-11-23T02:09:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T02:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomnachreiner.com\/w\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2022-10-17T17:24:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T17:24:57","slug":"about-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tomnachreiner.com\/w\/about-the-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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History<\/h3>\n

Tom was born in Madison WI & grew up in Verona WI, close by. He enjoyed his younger years drawing plans for projects & later meeting over the kitchen table with an interested, inventive dad, trading crude drawings. Tom’s mother would help him with school projects when it would involve art. Tom got his creative start from his parents and explored his own artistic world with their support.<\/p>\n

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Education<\/h3>\n

Tom Nachreiner has lived in Wisconsin all his life. He met his high school sweetheart, Nancy, in his freshman year at Verona High School. Tom was active in Track 4 years, Baseball 4 years, Basketball 4 years and as a Senior Tom won the Physics Award and was Secretary of Math & Science on the Student Council. After graduation, he spent one year at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he started out in Engineering & then switched to Fine Art. He transferred to Milwaukee\u2019s Layton School of Art where he won a merit award scholarship each year & at the end of his junior year he won the school’s highest scholarship. The Miriam Frink, Charlotte Partridge Scholarship, included full tuition & all art supplies for his senior year. Tom received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with highest honors.<\/p>\n

After graduation Tom built a reputation in Milwaukee’s Advertising community. He started his own illustration company, Art Factory, Ltd. Tom’s paintings were accepted three times into the New York Society of Illustrators Show in New York, & were included in their book distributed world wide. Tom has won many illustration awards throughout the years, both locally and nationally.<\/p>\n

In more recent years, Tom has made a transition back to Fine Art, painting from his heart & exhibiting in Galleries. Tom paints “for the shear love of it”, earlier with watercolor & gouache on paper and now, within the last 15 years, with oil on canvas, linen, or panels.<\/p>\n

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Family<\/h3>\n

I married Nancy, my \u201chigh school sweetheart\u201d. We have two children, Sara & Robin, and four grandchildren, Chad 16, Lila 12,\u201d Joie 6, & Amry 4.<\/p>\n

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Teaching History<\/h3>\n

1995 \u2013 2000\u00a0 Teacher at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design \u2013 Senior Illustration Seminars.<\/p>\n

2005 \u2013 Present\u00a0 Workshops through – Tom Nachreiner School of Art \u2013 Maple Ave Studio – Elm Grove Studio\u00a0\u00a0 & – Art Associations all around the country.<\/p>\n

2009 \u2013 Present\u00a0 Teacher of Workshops at Peninsula School of Art in Fish Creek, WI.<\/p>\n

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Teaching Philosophy<\/h3>\n

“I want to teach as many students as I can to paint with oils in a safer way, as well as how to have fun experimenting, finding endless possibilities with a positive attitude.
So many students are intimidated or afraid to use oil paint. I show them that there’s no reason for that fear once they try painting my way.”<\/p>\n

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Artist’s Statement<\/h3>\n
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\u201cI celebrate the application of juicy, colorful paint through making a variety of spontaneous \u201cbasic marks” or perhaps musical notes from the rhythms of my heart I feel while enjoying the privilege of capturing my own unique vision of a moment in time. Keeping the paint fresh and spontaneous by working quickly with high energy and a positive attitude is my number one goal, along with telling an imaginative story for the viewer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Recent Awards & Honors<\/h3>\n

\u201cI am an Oil Painters of America – Signature Member & an American Impressionist Society – Signature Member\u201d.<\/p>\n

PLEIN AIR EVENTS:<\/strong>
Door County Plein Air Invitational Festival – I won \u201cFirst Place\u201d 2008<\/strong> –\u201cSecond Place\u201d 2009<\/strong> –\u201cThird Place\u201d 2011 \/ Third Place in 2017 and Second Place in 2019.<\/strong>
Cedarburg Plein Air Event – I won \u201cBest of Show\u201d 2006 & 2011 & 2013<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I won Artist\u2019s Choice Award 2017 & 2018<\/strong> at the Cedarburg Event. I won many other awards in Quick Paint and several in “Best of Cedarburg Historical.<\/strong>\u00a0 – In 2019 I was the judge<\/strong> of the Cedarburg Event.
Milwaukee Plein Air Event –\u00a0 won \u201cBest of Show\u201d 2008.<\/strong>
Shorewood Plein Air Event – I won \u201cBest of Show\u201d 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n

GREEN BAY PACKERS HONOR:<\/strong>
Lambeau Field Stadium Art Collection<\/strong> I have 4 Paintings<\/strong> that hang in the Lambeau Field Stadium, the largest is 56″ x 96″. All 4 are historical in nature, The largest being the 1967 “Ice Bowl”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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National Juried Exhibitions\u00a0<\/h3>\n

OIL PAINTERS OF AMERICA NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> – <\/strong>I was accepted in 2009 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 – 2018 – 2019 – 2020 – 2021 – 2022.\u00a0 In <\/strong><\/em>2013 <\/strong><\/em><\/strong>I won the Dorothy Driehaus Mellin Fellowship Award<\/strong> of 20,000.00 and in 2018 and 2019<\/strong> won “Best Of Division Honorable Mention”.<\/strong>
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OIL PAINTERS OF AMERICA EASTERN REGIONAL – <\/strong>Tom was accepted in 2010 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 – 2018 – 2019 – 2020 – 2022.\u00a0 <\/strong>In 2019 Tom won “Impressionist Award of Excellence”
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OIL PAINTERS OF AMERICA<\/strong><\/em> “SALON SHOW” <\/strong><\/em><\/strong>iTom was accepted in 2010 –<\/strong> 2013 – 2015 – 2016- 2020 – 2021.\u00a0 2020 I won an \u201cAward of Excellence\u201d.
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AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST SOCIETY – NATIONAL SHOW<\/strong><\/em>. <\/strong><\/em><\/strong>Tom was accepted<\/em> in<\/em> 2013 -2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 – 2018 – 2019 – 2020 – 2021 – 2022.<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

OTHER:<\/strong>\u00a0 Among many other recognitions, I have been juried into the \u201cAmerican Watercolor Society Show\u201d<\/strong> in New York, juried into \u201cThe Society of Illustrators Show\u201d<\/strong> in New York three times, & was featured in \u201cArtist\u2019s Magazine\u201d<\/strong> three times.<\/em><\/p>\n

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