Writer

Since its inception in 2011, Nancy Cohen Israel has been a regular contributor to Patron magazine and the Dallas Arts District Guide. She has also been a contributing arts writer to a variety of publications across North Texas, including Glasstire, VisitDallas, Arts + Culture, and FD Luxe. Her work has been appeared nationally in artltd. and Lilith.

In addition, Nancy is a contributing writer to catalogue essays for numerous artists across the state, including Simon Waranch, Chong Keun Chu, James Surls and George Tobolowsky, Ellen Francis Tuchman, McKay Otto and Orna Feinstein, Deborah Ballard, and Arie Van Selm, among others.

For a selection of recent magazine stories, please visit these links:

Enriching Foundation, Patron magazine, August/September, 2024

Palais de Texas, Patron magazine, August/September, 2024

Out of the Twister, Patron magazine, August/September, 2023

Mingei Moment, Patron magazine, June/July, 2023

Embracing Identity, Patron magazine, April/May, 2023

Urban Pioneers, Patron magazine, April/May, 2022

Full Steam Ahead, Patron magazine, October/November, 2021

Treasures in our Midst, Patron magazine, April/May, 2021

Remembering Edith Baker, Patron magazine, March 18, 2021

Reframing the Retablo, Patron magazine, December 2020/January, 2021

Structural Elements, Patron magazine, April, 2020

Good Neighbors, Patron magazine, April, 2020

Scott Kahn at Harper’s Books, Patron magazine, April, 2020

The Estate of Georg Karl Pfahler at Nino Mier, Patron magazine, April, 2020

Showered in Arts, VisitDallas, Spring/Summer, 2020

Flights of Fancy, Patron magazine, February/March, 2020

Think Globally, Act Locally, Patron magazine, February/March, 2020

Modern Congregation, Patron magazine, December, 2019/January, 2020

Teaching Tolerance in a Fractured World, Patron magazine, October/November, 2019

Future Forward, Patron magazine, October/November, 2019

Together Again, Patron magazine, October/November, 2019

Rarefied Company, Patron magazine, August/September, 2019

Diversity in the District, Dallas Arts District Guide, Official Visitor’s Guide, 2019/2020

Dinner and a Show, Dallas Arts District Guide, Official Visitor’s Guide, 2019/2020

For a selection of exhibition catalogues, please follow the following links:

Transparent Universe: Orna Feinstein and McKay Otto, Museum of Geometric Art, October, 2019

Hope for the Future, Embellished with the Past: Ellen Frances Tuchman’s Reveries, koelsch haus gallery, Houston, September, 2018

View from the Art Village: 50 Year Retrospective, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, March, 2017

Deborah Ballard: The Voice Within, Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Dallas, 2016.