Nancy Rosen has created a variety of public art, especially temporary exhibitions of outdoor sculpture. In 1980, she founded Nancy Rosen Incorporated, an organization which plans and implements public art programs and collections. Her work includes the Art-for-Public-Spaces program for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and a public art program for Battery Park City, a neighborhood adjacent to the World Trade Center site. She advised the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Committee for Art in Public Places at Middlebury College. She has served on the Art Commission of the City of New York since 2002.
In 2003, she served on the jury for the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition.
In addition to public art, Nancy Rosen acted as advisor to The Walt Disney Company for the artwork aboard the Disney Magic and Disney Wonder cruise ships built in Mestre, Italy between 1997 and 1999.
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