Name:   Nancy Azara Place of Birth:   Brooklyn, NY Ethnicity:   Italian American Father's Name:   Joseph F. Azara Mother's Name:   Nancy Como Children's Names:   Nana Olivas Sibling's Names :   Victoria and Joseph Job Title:   Sculptor and Educator Affiliations:   International Sculpture Center, WCA, CAA, Sculptors Guild Interests and Hobbies:   travel Societal Contributions:   Nancy Azara is a sculptor, painter and educator who has shown her carved, painted and gilded wood sculptures both locally and internationally in places as diverse as Italy and Taiwan. She founded a feminist art institute with 5 other women The New York Feminist Art Institute, NYFAI (1979-1990) where she taught a workshop called Visual Diaries: Consciousness Raising and Art Making. She has also written a book Spirit Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Art. She is a mother ad grandmother and her life partner is Darla Bjork, MD, artist and physician.