Stephen L. Crohn Gallery Exhibit

Nancy (Osenni) Campbell grew up and still lives in Saugerties, where she and her husband Michael raised their three children. She was elected to the Saugerties Town Board and served from 2006-09. She was Executive Director of the Woodstock School of Art from 2010-15, and a member of the school’s Board of Directors for 10 years, stepping down in 2025. She is currently an instructor of gouache painting at the school.

In 1998 Nancy, with longtime friend and colleague Angela Gaffney-Smith, opened the Half Moon Studio gallery on the second floor of the building now home to Inquiring Minds Bookstore, on Partition & Main Streets. From 2002-2006, the gallery was at 18 Market Street, current home of the Saugerties Pharmacy, where it became a co-op featuring some 20 artists.

Nancy has always been inspired by the beauty she finds in her surroundings, whether the familiar streets of the Saugerties Village, where she has lived since 1981, the woodlands and vistas of the greater Catskills, or the area formerly known as the “Campagna Romana” in the rugged hills not far from Rome, Italy where she and Mike have hosted painting workshops over the years.

She has worked in watercolors, oils, printmaking and gouache. Some of her artists heroes are Fairfield Porter, Lois Dodd, Edouard Vuillard, and Thom Thompson, as well as her fellow artists at the Woodstock School of Art, including, but not limited to, Staats Fasoldt and Kate McGloughlin both of whom she has studied with.

Campbell has received awards for her work at The Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY, Southwest Artists of Mena Arkansas, Chico Art Center, in Chico, Ca, and the Woodstock Artists Assn.& Museum in Woodstock, NY.

In 2025 Nancy published “Winter in the Catskills,” a book featuring 40 winter paintings.