Annie Nashold was born in Montreal, Canada and grew up in Durham, North Carolina. She graduated from Duke University with a degree in Art Studio and with studies in Art History and Religion. She also attended Penland School for Photography.
Cooking and baking became her first profession. She studied at Cornell Hotel and Restaurant School and worked in restaurants in Connecticut and North Carolina. Annie was chef and owner of her own catering company, ‘Annie’s Kitchen’.
Annie left the food business to become an Assistant Slide Curator for the Duke University Art Department. After three years, she returned to school and did masters work in Landscape Architecture at NC State University School of Design.
As a volunteer, Annie founded ‘Into the Garden’, an award winning Children’s Environmental Education Program for the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University. For twenty years she directed the program touching the lives of children of all ages, teachers, and parents. The focus of her work provided ways for children to learn from and to connect with the natural world.
During this time, Annie wrote and self-published ‘Native Tales’ a teacher resource book which explored North Carolina native plants through culture, history, and ecology. With funding from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, every fourth grade teacher in the five counties of the Research Triangle received a free copy for use in their classrooms.
Upon retiring in 2011, Annie began painting full time. She has exhibited at the Durham Arts Council, Craven Allen Gallery, the Carrack Gallery, the Eno River Unitarian Fellowship Gallery, St. Philips Church, the Watts-Hillandale Art Walk, and Urban Durham Realty to name a few. Annie has worked as a gallery guide at the Nasher Museum of Contemporary Art at Duke University. She has studied Botanical Art and Illustration at the North Carolina Botanical Garden and taught watercolor painting and nature journaling at the NCBG Children’s Program. At the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke University, Annie co-taught a course called ‘Mapping, Collage, and Writing: Geography of Memory and Imagination’. Annie has worked with private students including those with mental challenges.
Exhibtions
1976 Duke University Union Gallery Show, Senior Work, Solo
2013, 2016, 2017, 2018 DAG Member’s Showcase
2014 Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Kirby Horton Hall, Art and Nature
2015 ERUFF’s Eno River Gallery, Layered Openings, Solo
2017,2018 & 2019 The Carrack Gallery, Community Show
2019 The Skylight Gallery, Hillsborough Artist’s Cooperative, Stories That Are Ours, Solo
2020 PS118 Gallery, New Works, New Blood
2021 Horse and Buggy Press & Friends Gallery, Mining the Personal
Juries Exhibits
2014 DAG Juried Show, Face-to-Face:Human Observation, Expression and Interaction Juror Beverly McIver
2017 DAG Annual Juried Show, Juror Alexys Taylor
2019 The Triangle Community Foundation, Beating Hearts Series, Juror John Paul Thomas
Corporate Collections
2019 The Triangle Community Foundation, Beating Hearts Series, Juror John Paul Thomas
Other Venues
2012 St. Philips Church Art Show, Following Our Hearts
2013 St. Philips Art Church Show, Going to Galilee, Sharing Our Talent
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 Watts-Hillandale Neighborhood Artwalk
2015 St.Philips Church, Let Your Light Shine
2018 The White Doe Inn, Manteo, NC, Works by Annie Nashold, Solo
2018 Durham Urban Realty, Beating Hearts Series, Solo