Nancy Scheer began formal art training at Parsons School of Design in New York on a full scholarship learning communication design, and received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. She also attended Johns Hopkins University for the Creative Writing MFA Program. 

Scheer became an active member of cooperative spaces and a part of the managerial staff in galleries in Baltimore, Maryland and Scottsdale, Arizona. She exhibited her work extensively across the United States and Canada, including two solo exhibitions at Arizona State University and Stevenson University.

Scheer is a professional calligrapher, and had her business, Ink by Nancy, from 1992-2023. Since 2022, Nancy is a  Coordinator for a national advertising agency, which produces local and regional cable television commercials, and  continues to create drawings, paintings and linocuts in her Baltimore studio.

My artwork is primarily figurative and self-referential. Through a slow process of distillation, my goal is to reach the core element of my experiences, with a great awareness of the interactions between color, line and gesture.