Nancy Nowacek
Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Institutional Service
- Academic Operations Member
- Academic Appeals Commitee Member
- Undergraduate Studies Committee Member
- VA&T Spring Lecture Series Chair
- Search Committee Member
- "Life After Stevens" Alumni Panel Initiator and Coordinator Chair
- ACES/ART HARPER support Chair
- Faculty Search Committee Member
- VAT Spring Lecture Series Member
- Undergraduate Studies Committee Member
- Spring Lecture Series Chair
- Student Awards Committee Member
- Red Shift Chair
- VAT Spring Lecture Series Chair
- Furnishings Member
Professional Service
- Works Co-founder; Member Core Team
- Flux Factory Donating Artist
- Center 4 Artistic Activism Consulting Designer
- NY/NJ Harbor Estuary Program’s Citizen Advisory Council Art advisor
- Publication: Plastic Matter Design consultant
- Works on Water Curatorial and Central Leadership Team
- Works on Water Co-founder; Curatorial Leadership
- Center for Artistic Activism Designer
- Culture Push Member, Board of Directors
- Works on Water Core member, curator, and administrator
- Center for Artistic Activism Designer, Unstoppable Voters
- Culture Push Member, Board of Directors
- New York City Department of City Planning, Waterfront and Open Spaces Public Outreach Consultant
Professional Societies
- CAA – College Art Association Member
Selected Publications
Book
- Nowacek, N.; Zurkow, M. (2020). Monument to Habitat Compensation Island. New York City: The Starlings.
monumentisland.com.
Book Chapter
- Rowe, A. V.; Nowacek, N. (2024). A Call for Social Engagement: The Arts Proposal as Creative Research. Experiments in Art Research How Do We Live Questions Through Art? Edited BySarah Travis, Azlan Guttenberg Smith, Catalina Hernández-Cabal, Jorge Lucero. NY, NY: Routeledge.
Conference Proceeding
Journal Article
- Lytle, A.; Nowacek, N. (2024). Between Islands – an intergenerational contact and creative practice program. . Journal of Intergenerational Relationships.
- Lytle, A.; Nowacek, N. (2023). Using art and creative practice to provide education about ageism and age stereotypes. . Educational Gerontology.
- Nowacek, N. (2021). Three Cheers for Age Diversity and Deep Hanging Out, MN Artists. MN Artists (12-3-21 ed.). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Walker Art Center.
https://mnartists.walkerart.org/?p=28744&preview=1&_ppp=55714317f5. - Lytle, A.; Nowacek, N.; Levy, S. R. (2020). Instapals: Reducing ageism by facilitating intergenerational contact and providing aging education. Gerontology and Geriatrics Education (3 ed., vol. 41, pp. 308-319).
- Lytle, A.; Nowacek, N. (2020). Instapals: Reducing ageism by facilitating intergenerational contact and providing aging education. .
- Nowacek, N.. Plastic Tide. Underwater New York: The Labor Issue. New York, NY: Underwater New York.
https://underwaternewyork.com/issue-15-the-labor-issue.