Nina Catherine Nichols nina@sockmonsterforest.com
Nina C. Nichols is the active president of The Black Forest Fancies Non-profit Organization in New Orleans. She is a film maker, puppeteer, costume designer, screenwriter, performance artist, illustrator and set/stage designer. Nina began her work in traveling variety shows at the age of seventeen through the lens of carnival, cabaret, circus, and vaudeville. These shows more than often experiment with alternative modes of travel and living such as bio-diesel vehicles and machinery, freight train hopping, bicycle dependance, sustainable community space, horseback travel and salvage trash worship. Miss Nichols graduated with honors from the State University of New York at Purchase with a degree in Stop Motion Animation in the field of New Media where she studied under broadway set designer Joseph Forbes and sound designer Liz Phillips. While between obligations, she supplemented with a degree in Medicinal Herbology from the North Carolina School of Natural Healing. Nina has circled the United States seven times with theatrical productions ranging from medicine shows to bicycle drive-ins to large scale operettas. Recently she completed the twenty minute stop motion spectacular, "White Anemials". Nina Nichols lives in New Orleans and works as a stilt performer, composer and community arts organizer. In recent months, she lived as resident artist at The Dream Community in Taipei, Taiwan. There, she led workshops as costume designer, parade organizer and puppet builder before returning to the United States for an art opening at the Black Maria Gallery in Los Angeles and another whirlwind operetta tour.

Mission Bringing magic to the spectrum of daily events, embracing the old and beautiful, holding the hidden to the light, honoring the ability of dreamers to accomplish the impossible.

Monster Photography by Alison Nickles

Links www.negativespaces.com
www.myspace.com/crooksandnannies
www.danasherwood.com
www.zeebling.com
www.myspace.com/killerpanda
www.myspace.com/whyarewebuildingsuchabigship
www.myspace.com/herringboneorchestra
www.missrockaway.org

www.apocalypsestagecoach.com

myspace.com/theblackforestfancies

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