Nancy Agati is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and independent curator. Her multi-media work includes painting, works on paper, sculpture, site-specific installation, and public art. Agati holds a BFA from Alfred University School of Art & Design, NY, and an MFA from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. She has exhibited her work throughout Philadelphia and nationally, with select exhibitions at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, PA; Stockton University Gallery, Galloway, NJ; Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, NY; Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC; and The Calandra Italian American Institute, NY.

Agati’s work is featured in several collections, including The Pennsylvania Convention Center and Temple University. Her public projects about water and the environment include Aqua Terrace at the DaVinci Art Alliance, Basins and Borders for the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, Water Table for the New Jersey Coastal Climate Resilience Project, and FLOW at The Independence Seaport Museum. Agati has received two Leeway Foundation awards, along with project grants from the Hemera Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, the Atlantic City Arts Foundation, NOAA, NJDEP, and the City of Philadelphia. She has been an artist in residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute, NM; Lo Studio dei Nipoti, Italy; Main & Station, Nova Scotia; PHS/Meadowbrook Farm, PA; and Officina Stamperia Del Notaio, Tusa, Sicily.

Nancy expanded her interests and endeavors in 2025 to include curatorial work with two group exhibitions, CONTEMPORARY RUIN future visions, at Drexel University’s Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia, and TIMELINE at Laurel Hill Mansion, Philadelphia. After a career of teaching art to middle school and high school students, Nancy is delighted to be an Arcadia faculty member, instructing the Studio Art Foundations course.