Nancy Shippen Livengood

Artist/Objects Conservator

I began my love of painting at the age of 13 while studying under Atlanta artist Claudia Hartley, continuing my studies in art at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.  Since then, my life journey has taken me through archaeological digs around the Mediterranean, graduate study in Europe, teaching art to orphans in Morocco, the conservation of artifacts for Jamestown, Valley Forge, and other sites along the East Coast and throughout the Southeastern USA, and conservation of artwork at the Tubman Museum in Macon, puppets at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, and social history objects at the Atlanta History Center.  In August 2016, I joined the conservation team to move the Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama painting from Grant Park to the Atlanta History Center, cleaning the painting, filling and inpainting the landscape that was completed in 2018.  I have since joined the department of Arts and Culture for Fulton County as their Public Art Conservator.  

While I enjoy my work in art conservation, my true passion is creating art, especially in oil, whether en plein air or in my studio.

I frequently exhibit my artwork with the Atlanta Artists Center in juried monthly shows (2nd place Award, February 2012; Merit Award, September 2012).  In addition, my art has exhibited at Art Station in Stone Mountain (Fall 2016), the Fuse Arts Center at C4 Atlanta (December 2014), the Defoors Center, Atlanta (August 2012), and the Macon Arts Alliance (solo show December 2010).  I participated in Zoo Atlanta’s Art Gone Wild (June 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017), as well as an annual plein air artists exhibit at the Buckhead Library each December (2016, 2017 & 2018).  Most recently, I was selected to spend two weeks (February 2019) in Southern Maryland at an artist residency with Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Gallery, and as a selected artist with the plein air event Georgia Color (Olmsted Plein Air Invitational) in the fall of 2019, 2020 and 2021.