Nicole Pietrantoni, Visiting Assistant Professor
Printmaking
e-mail: nicole.pietrantoni@umontana.edu
phone: 406-243-4651
office: Fine Arts Bldg 409
website: www.nicole-pietrantoni.com/
Biography
Nicole Pietrantoni’s work explores the complex relationship between human beings and nature. Employing both traditional and non-traditional methods of printmaking, she creates installations, works on paper, and public art. As a Fulbright Fellow to Iceland in 2010-2011 she conducted research into the ecology and landscape of Iceland. She was a visiting artist at the Icelandic Printmakers’ Association where she taught printmaking classes and coordinated an international printmaking dialogue day. Nicole has been awarded numerous artist residencies in the US and Iceland including the SÍM Residency, Akureyri Artists Residency, and the Ora Lerman Charitable Trust. She was the recipient of a Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Fellowship, the Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Fellowship, and a public art commission from the University of Iowa Hospital. Her work is in numerous collections in the US and abroad and has been exhibited internationally.
Artist Statement
My artistic research and work examines the layers of narratives and histories that shape the way in which one frames the natural world. I’m interested in examining my experience and expectations of beauty – particularly my relationship to landscape and wilderness. To this end, I am guided in my research by the following questions: what stories affect my interaction with and understanding of landscape and nature? How does a lineage of art history, media, and technology influence the way in which I picture and make images?
In the studio I am committed to experimenting with materials and methods of making a print. I seek to engage in an artistic practice that challenges me to consider my role as an artist, spectator, and participant in the world around me.
Education
M.F.A. University of Iowa 2010
M.A. University of Iowa 2009
B.S. Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 2003
