Juror

Nan Rumpf grew up in a small Iowa town on the banks of the Mississippi River, where she spent much of her childhood exploring the outdoors on her bicycle and daydreaming under a lilac bush. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.A. She currently lives in Wellesley Massachusetts.

She has worked as a professional puppeteer, designing and constructing her own puppets and masks. She organized dramatic arts workshops in public schools and libraries for twenty years. Nan acted as art instructor, artistic director, narrator, sound effects expert and musician while children use their puppet and mask creations to dramatize folk tales. She wrote and illustrated the book Puppets and Masks: Stagecraft and Storytelling published by Davis Publications, 1996.

   
She has studied watercolor painting with Susan Swinand, Jane Goldman, Paul George, Charles Reid, and Cheng Khee Chee.

   
Her paintings have been exhibited at The Danforth Museum, The Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, The Attleboro Arts Museum, The Wellesley Free Library (First Place Award), The Center For The Arts in Natick, Art on the Common in Needham (First Place Award), The Clinton Art show (Best In Show), Post Road Art (First Place Award in the Abstract Show), The Wellesley Community Center (Margaret Fitzwilliam Award for Excellence in Watercolor), The New England WC Society’s Show in Cotuit (Woodruff Art Center Award), The NEWS National show in Gloucester (Golden Award), The American Watercolor Society’s International show in New York, and two of her paintings were recently awarded in Concord Art’s Juried shows.  Her painting Accumulations was featured as one of the Best in Watercolor 2021 in the winter 2022 issue of Watercolor Artist Magazine. 

  
She is a board member of the Wellesley Society of Artists. She is a Signature Member of the New England Watercolor Society. She has been chosen to judge several art exhibits.

She has been a visiting artist at Framingham State University, the Bancroft School in Worcester, and at Medfield High School.  She ran a professional development workshop for Framingham teachers. She currently teaches Zoom watercolor classes and Zoom Chinese Brush Painting classes as well as in-person workshops and art demos.