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Like the fantastic imagined landscapes she creates, Nancy Tobin has constructed her career in layers: varied but consistent in its commitment to form, technique and process. Her dedication to art-making started early, in a basement studio she created at age 10 in her parents home in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Following the path open to the youngest child in a blue-collar family, she parlayed a degree in commercial art into a successful career as an award winning graphic designer and children’s book illustrator. Tobin moved to San Francisco (where she studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute), then relocated to the New York area in 2001.

During her New York years, Nancy’s painting took flight. She’s has solo and group exhibitions in galleries across the country, including the Cue Gallery in New York, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Michigan, Orange County Center for Contemporary art in California, and Mason Gross at Rutgers University and the Pierro Gallery in New Jersey. In 2007, Tobin won the Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Papermaking fellowship at Rutgers University. Her work has been acquired by numerous private and museum collections. Less\

Sadie Rothenberg is a costume designer and illustrator currently based in San Diego, California, where she works with The Old Globe; the San Diego Opera; Playwrights Project; and other performance venues. Her previous work includes the Grand Rapids Ballet as well as theaters in New York and London. 

Sadie never stops imagining or creating. When she's not designing and constructing costumes, Sadie's dreaming up the fanciful creatures that populate ArtRat, including our eponymous mascot. Her work includes pictures; puppets; masks; soft sculptures; and two books: …But, the Mice Win! and The Spectre’s Holiday.

Sadie received a BFA in Costume Design at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.