Nancy Ann Präger-Benett

Background

Präger-Benett, Nancy Ann was born on March 17, 1945 in New York City. Daughter of Sigmund Godfrey Prage and Eleanor Pauline Prager.

Education

Student Master of Arts program Syracuse University, 1961-1962. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Accademia de Belle Arte, Florence, Italy, 1965. Bachelor of Arts, Cooper Union College, 1968.

Career

Work exhibited in private museum shows, also museum and university group shows, United States, Italy, France, Canada, Turkey, England, American embassy, Turkish Mission to United Nations. Represented in private and corporation collections, United States, Italy, England, Turkey, France, Canada. Teacher Black Emergency Cultural CoalitionN.Y. prison systems

Chairman of the Board Mannes College Music.

Company-director program for disabled children Metropolitan Museum Art, 1977, producer Dance program, Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum Artist Board directors Academy television Arts and Sciences, American Ballet Theatre II, Amalfi Coast Consortium, Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics, American-Italian Foundation for Cancer Research.

Director development public relations World Children"s Day Foundation. Chairman Art for Children"s Survival United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, 1991, board directors Metro chapter.

Achievements

• Nancy Ann Präger-Benett has been listed as a notable artist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American-Scandinavian Foundation, Les Surindependants Societaire, Graphic Art Association, Smithsonian Associations, Metropolitan Museum. Club: Saltaire Yacht (director 1972-1980, governor, board directors). Work noted in Artist USABicentennial, New York Art Yearbook, Nouvelle Littaire, Art News Magazine, Arts Magazine.

Connections

Married Barry Lawrence Benett, June 19, 1966. Children: Lara Christina, Andrew Bernard, Ariane Alison.

Father:

Sigmund Godfrey Prage

Mother:

Eleanor Pauline Prager

Spouse:

Barry Lawrence Benett

child:

Ariane Alison Präger-Benett

child:

Andrew Bernard Präger-Benett

child:

Lara Christina Präger-Benett