Jane Allen Nodine

Jane Allen Nodine is Professor of Art and Director of the Curtis R. Harley Art Gallery at the University of South Carolina Upstate. Her work has taken many forms over the years including techniques in drawing, painting, design, jewelry-metalsmithing, installation and photography. Her most recent research involves computer manipulation of digital imagery and techniques for merging traditional photography and drawing with new forms of imaging and print technology. An example of this work was included in the South Carolina State Museum's TRIENNIAL 2004 exhibition in Columbia, and the 2005 Appalachian Corridors exhibition at the Avampato Museum in Charleston, West Virginia. During the fall of 2006 Jane began research in encaustics and integrated the process into her work. Since that time she has completed several groups of work for exhibition, and performed research of encaustic techniques with the R&F Paint manufacturing company in Kingston, NY. October of 2007 Jane presented a solo exhibition of encaustic works at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia, and ten of her encaustic paintings were acquired by MUSC, the Medical University of South Carolina for the Ashley River Tower Contemporary Carolina Collection, Charleston, SC. Nodine is currently scheduled for a group exhibition at the Frist Center for the Arts in Nashville, Tennessee during 2008.

Nodine's work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe and she has been recognized with numerous awards including an NEA/SECCA Southeastern Seven IV Fellowship from the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and two South Carolina Arts Commission Artist Fellowships. In 2002 Jane was awarded the Belle W. Baruch Visiting Scholar Fellowship to Hobcaw Barony Plantation, Georgetown, South Carolina where she performed a photographic research project that was completed in 2003. Jane received the 1999 University of South Carolina Upstate Excellence in Teaching Award, and the 2004 SECAC, Southeastern College Art Conference Award for Teaching Excellence. In 1999 Nodine was selected by the South Carolina State Museum and the South Carolina Arts Commission as one of the one hundred most significant artists in South Carolina during the 20th century.

Nodine holds MFA and BFA degrees from the University of South Carolina and she has numerous years experience teaching at the college level. From the late 1970's to the mid 1990's Jane owned and operated Jane Nodine HARDWEAR, a jewelry design and manufacturing company. In 1999 Nodine developed a program in art and Italian culture that gives students an opportunity to study and travel in Italy to locations including Milan, Venice, Florence, and Rome. Travel Study in Italy is offered every other Maymester and students can register for transferable college credit. Jane is also director of Internships for the USC Upstate Visual Art program.