Remembering Nancy

[updates below]

She may be gone, but we’ll all have our Nancys. She was a brilliant engraver with a very specific style, impishly witty, technically curious, aestheically driven. She was funny and stylish and bright. She was a really good friend, considerate and caring and good company. She was intelligent and quick. And now she’s gone, all of that has gone.

Nancy’s life was way too short for her art, her friends, her family, and me. She deserves to be remembered so much, and maybe this is one way to do that usefully. Cancer is such a vicious disease, so stupidly random, especially the one that killed her; if she can’t fight it any more, maybe we can – at least a little.

I thought about nominating cancer support charities, or one that would be dedicated to the blood cancer that ravaged her, but utlimately I think Cancer Research is the best option. It does exactly what it says, and that’s exactly what’s needed to understand and combat cancer — any and all cancer – in the future.

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AN UPDATE I’m so grateful for all the donations, but also for the outpouring of love and respect for Nancy.

I’m trying to arrange donations of some of her more significant work (by ‘significant’ I mean technically advanced as well as creatively and aesthetically strong) to glass museums and similar places where people – especially engravers – can see what’s possible (and what we’re missing). Progress so far:

>> Stourbridge Glass Museum is taking GEODE, which was being shown by Blowfish Gallery just over the road:

>> The Studio at Corning Museum of Glass (upstate New York) is taking MOTHS, which was being shown by Habatat Gallery:

… any other suggestions welcome!