20" X 27" Red cochineal ink and black ink on amate bark paper.

In Aleo's words; "This is from my Red and Black Map Series.  This intuitive collection of imagery is inspired by my travels to Mexico.  The red cochineal ink derived from insects and the amate bark paper are both produced in Mexico."

Nancy Aleo is an Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Studio Foundation Department at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.  She is President of the Board of Trustees of the Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and maintains a studio in the Boston area.  Ms Aleo earned her MFA and BFA degrees in ceramics and has focused on mixed media drawing and painting for over 20 years.

Most recently a painting from her Sound Collection Series was included in the Sguardi Sonori 2008 exhibition in Napoli, Italy. Her mixed media drawings were also exhibited in the Northeast Prize Show 2008 at the Cambridge Art Association and at the New England BioLabs, Ipswich, MA

Ms Aleo is a past recipient of Painting Fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Program (1988) and the New England Foundation/National Endowment for the Arts (1994).  She was a grant recipient of the Berkshire Taconic Artist Resource Trust in 2000 and received a Faculty Development Fellowship from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2006.