Nancy Mizuno Elliott

Oakland, CA

Nancy Mizuno Elliott is an art professor at City College of San Francisco. She also directs the College's art gallery. She has extensive experience in non-profit programming, gallery management, and art administration. Most recently, she was the Curatorial Fellow for Truman State University and ProArts 2 x 2 series. She was also the Exhibitions Director at Richmond Art Center and responsible for curating over twenty exhibitions per year. She exhibits nationally and abroad. Honors include C-00 Film Grants, Individual Artist Project Grants (City of Oakland), Alameda County Purchase Awards, numerous public art projects, and residencies at ComPeung (Thailand), The White Colony (Costa Rica), Can Serrat (Spain), Ragdale Foundation (Chicago), Hambidge Center (Atlanta), Osage Arts Community (Missouri), Noxubee Wildlife Refuge (Mississippi), FreeUp (Oakland), and De Young Museum (San Francisco). In regard to public art, she has collaborated with other artists, fast food workers, animal shelter staff, veterans, high school and college students, incarcerated youth, recreation centers, librarians and library patrons, poets, and active seniors. Most recently, she was the lead artist and coordinator of the Paw Power! Mural Project at Oakland Animal Services, in which fifteen artists volunteered their time and talents in order to beautify the shelter by creating over twenty murals in hopes of boosting adoptions and staff/volunteer morale.