Nina Gale Olson’s experience in non-profit arts administration spans the following areas: development, publicity, community engagement and outreach, strategic partnerships, and program development and, includes having worked at leading non-profit arts organizations. She has served as a panelist for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs’ Cultural Development Fund and as an evaluator for the Arts Education program of the New York State Council on the Arts. Consulting clients have included: PRIME LATINO MEDIA, Boardwalk Productions, The Miami Foundation, Arts @ The Betsy Hotel, Hyam Plutzik Poetry, Composer/Conductor Tania Leon, Bloomingdale School of Music, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Clark Center NYC, Children's Museum of Manhattan.
Educated as a visual artist, she studied with Abe Ajay and Leonard Stokes at SUNY at Purchase. Her work has been exhibited at the Nieman Gallery @ Columbia University, Harlem School of the Arts, Taller Boricua Gallery, Dance Theater Workshop Gallery, Painted Bride Art Center, and the Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria as part of a two year national tour entitled, Pulp Fictions: Works on Paper an exhibition curated by Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She is a recipient of the Shirley and Franklin Poul Award for her work in the exhibition, The Power of Paper: Celebrating Women Artists at the Main Line Art Center curated by Bernice Steinbaum and the Juror's Merit Award for Pulp Fictions: Works on Paper. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Daily News, Diversion Magazine, and Victoria Magazine. To visit her artist Face Book page: https://www.facebook.com/Nina-Gale-Olson-260976267251675/