Personal Bio

I live in the LowerTown Arts District in Paducah, Kentucky but grew up in central Massachusetts. My musician husband and I moved to Paducah in 2003 as part of Paducah’s Artist Relocation Program. I have exhibited my artwork professionally since the mid 1980’s and taught art on the college level for many years. These days I operate my own studio gallery in the LowerTown Arts District, specializing in one of a kind original paintings and drawings featuring people, animals, nudes and nature. I do a fair amount of commissioned work, portraits and animal portraits. I work in a representational or realistic style but often times overlap into surrealism and magic realism.

Professional Bio

Nancy Calcutt has had one-person shows at several galleries in the United States, including Bry Gallery at the University of Louisiana in Monroe, Mississippi Cultural Crossroads Gallery in Port Gibson, Mississippi and City Hall Rotunda Gallery in Paducah, Kentucky.  Her work has been featured in many juried group exhibitions including, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana, Cottonlandia Museum, Greenwood, Mississippi, Janice Mason Art Museum, Cadiz, Kentucky, the American Academy of Equine Art, Lexington, KY, the National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society, Osage Missouri, and M. Francis Doggrell Gallery, Memphis, TN. Additionally, her work has been included in the prestigious Larson Biennial National Drawing Competition.  One of Calcutt's most distinct honors was to have her work travel to Australia in 1992 with the "Works on Paper Exchange Exhibit" at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia.

Calcutt is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including two Best of Show awards: the 34^th Annual Central South Exhibit in 1999 in Nashville and in 2004 at the 69^th Annual Woman's Club Exhibit, Paducah, KY.  In addition, she was a recipient of a Mississippi Arts Commission Artist Development Grant in 1998.  In 2006, she won a Purchase Award form the Pastel Society of America's 34^th Annual Exhibit in New York City and another Purchase Award from Binney & Smith Corporation in 1989.

Calcutt has been teaching art on the college level since 1986.   Calcutt earned a B.F.A. from Austin Peay State University in 1990 and an M.F.A. from the University of Mississippi in 1993.