Nancy Scheer began a life in the arts with formal art training in New York at Parsons School of Design with a focus in communication design. She received her BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Scheer later attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, enrolled in the Creative Writing MFA Program. 

Scheer became an active member of cooperative spaces and managerial staff in galleries in Baltimore, Maryland and Scottsdale, Arizona for over 20 years. She has exhibited her works extensively across the United States and Canada, including two solo exhibitions at Arizona State University and Stevenson University.


Scheer is a professional calligrapher, and led her business, Ink by Nancy, from 1992-2023. Since 2022, Nancy is a senior creative coordinator for a national advertising agency, which produces local and regional cable television commercials throughout the Atlantic region, 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.