Education
2018 – AA Arts, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, Illinois
Awards
2025 – Creative Accelerator Fund 2025- Grant – Illinois Art Council
2019 – Excellence in Painting McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, Illinois
Selected Exhibitions
2025 – 23rd Annual Winter Arts and Crafts Expo – Evanston Art Center, Illinois
2025 – Voices Visible: Explorations of Equity in the Arts in Elgin – Exhibition Elgin, Illinois
2024 – Elgin Fringe Festival Gallery Exhibition Elgin, Illinois
2024 – Prairie Plein Air Competition – Participant , Schaumburg, Illinois
2023 – Elgin Fringe Festival Gallery Exhibition Elgin, Illinois
2022 – Year 9 Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, Illinois
2021 – Year 8: You Are Not the Boss of My Art Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, Illinois
2020 – 10th Annual Art of the Land The Land Conservancy of McHenry County, Illinois
Publication
2025- FRIEDAcommunity Food Book 2025, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2020 – Milk and Honey Comic Anthology Issue Five Wilmington, North Carolina
2020 – Razorcake Webcomic Wednesdays #454 November 4, 2020 – Los Angeles, California
Bibliography
2023 – Mariacristina Cangi “Le vie di Carimate in opere d’arte…americane” Giornale di Cantù, newspaper edition March 11, 2023 – Link to article
Nicki Fortunati-Warren Arts 