Nancy Zastudil

Nancy Zastudil has been advocating for artists’ voices for nearly two decades. She has held directorial, curatorial, or editorial roles at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, the Frederick Hammersley Foundation, Tamarind Institute, Arts+Culture Texas, and Hyperallergic, where she commissioned global coverage of contemporary art, with special attention to art in the Southwest. In 2014, she launched her business The Necessarian, LLC, through which she offers essential advising, editing, and publishing services to the creative sector. Nancy was a 2024 Rabkin Prize nominee and her writing has been published in Artforum, Arts+Culture Texas, Hyperallergic, Southwest Contemporary, and more; her research has been supported by the Women's International Study Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation, Utah State University, and others. She received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from The Ohio State University, her MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts, and she is currently pursuing a graduate certificate in Sports, Entertainment, and Art Law from the University of Pittsburgh.