Nettie Zan has been working at art and in the art scene for nearly three decades in the Kansas City area.

ongoing highlights include:
Recipient of Studio Residency Award at InterUrban ArtHouse for 2024.
Teaching meditation at Inner Space since January 2024.
Producing Press Play meditation and creative sessions since January 2023.
Hosting a peer-lead Writers Circle since Summer 2022.
Continuing work with curators Anu Moon and Rhiannon Dickerson.

previous highlights include:
An art book in the Nelson’s Permanent Local Artists collection.
Winner of Curator’s Choice at the Fermi Lab Particle Accelerator Art Gallery (2009).
Exhibiting “The Interior Lives of Rabbits” installation with Hugh Merrill at Leedy-Volkous Gallery (Feb 2020).
Working with Hugh Merrill for 8 years on many worthy projects.
Developmental Editor for the Pop Poetry: #12poetsin12months project (2015-2017)
Founding Coordinator for the FountainVerse Poetry Festival (2016-2019).
Boss Applesauce at Uptown Arts Bar (2013-2019).
Live painting exhibitionist at Keyhole Gallery (2007-2009).
Recipient of ArtsKC Inspiration Grant for the poetry festival (2016).
Executive Director of Poetic Underground (2012-2016).
Nearly banned from Slam Poetry nationwide (2015).
Lemon Tree Residency in Italy (2016).
Gullkistan Residency in Iceland (2019-2020).
Marina Abramovic Workshop in Greece (2023).

Plus:
a lifetime of visual arts, publications and shows
20 plus books of poetry and fiction published
countless performance art exhibits