Selected Exhibitions:

2024

Taking Flight, Maine Audubon, Falmouth, ME

Gilsland Farm at 50, Maine Audubon, Falmouth,ME

Farm to Easel Art Auction, Wolfe’s Neck Center, Freeport, ME

40th Anniversary Show, Thomas Moser Gallery, Freeport, ME

Earth Day Show, Yarmouth Art and Frame, Yarmouth, ME

2023

Brush with Nature, Maine Audubon, Falmouth, ME

Holiday Show, Ocean House Gallery, South Portland, ME

Holiday Show, Yarmouth Art and Frame, Yarmouth, ME

2022

Restoring the Wild, solo exhibition, Maine Audubon, Falmouth, ME

Wild Ecology, solo exhibition, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, ME

MECA Collect, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

Farm to Easel Art Auction, Wolfe’s Neck Center, Freeport, ME

2020

Farm to Easel Art Auction, Wolfe’s Neck Farm, Freeport, ME

MECA Collect, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

. The Portland Show, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME

Artist’s Sing Out for Life and the Planet, Merrill Memorial Library in Yarmouth, ME

2019

MECA Collect, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

Art + Healing Project, New England Cancer Specialists, Scarborough, ME

2018

        Visions of Place: 30 Maine Artists, Thomas Moser Gallery, Freeport, ME

A Further Sea: Marine Gardens by Vanessa Nesvig and Assemblages by Andre Benoit,

LA Arts, Lewiston, ME

2017

        Spring Gallery Show, Archipelago, The Island Institute Gallery, Rockland, ME

         MECA Collect, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

 2016

        The Portland Show, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME

         21st Annual Juried Show, juror, Bruce Brown, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME

  2015

        Winter Green, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA

        Holiday Show, Ocean House Gallery, Cape Elizabeth, ME

   2014

        Microbiota, solo exhibition, Seacoast Science Center, Rye, NH

        Hydrographic: Erin McGee Ferrell and Vanessa Nesvig,

        Thomas Moser Gallery, Freeport, ME

   2013            

        Micro-biotic, solo exhibition, Wells National Estuarine Reserve, Wells, ME

        Summer exhibition, Thomas Moser Gallery, Freeport, ME

        Silent Spring: Enduring Legacy, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME

        Art Meets Science, Mount Desert Biolgical Laboratories, Seal Cove, ME

   2012             

         Three Artists: Nesvig, Niles, and Scheu, Flat Iron Gallery, Portland, ME

   2011

         Women Artists of Maine, Thomas Moser Gallery, Freeport, ME

         Freeport Artists, Thomas Moser Gallery, Freeport, ME

         Black and White, River Arts, Damariscotta, ME

         Black Frame Invitational, Portland, ME

    2009

          A Passion for Painting, Cygnet Gallery, Portland, Maine

          Art Takes Flight, Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, ME

     2000-2003    

          Pastel Painters of Maine Annual International Exhibition, ME

 

Press/Publications:

Native Ground Covers, Wild Seed Project, Book jacket and inside illustrations, 2022

Bringing Nature Home, Maine Audubon, Initiative illustration, 2021

Field Days, Maine Homes by Downeast, July/August 2020

Wild Seed, Wild Seed Project quarterly magazine, April 2020, cover and introduction page artwork

A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, Contributor, Littoral Books, 2019

Maine Home + Design, Ones to Watch: Vanessa Nesvig, 2017

          Maine Home + Design, Canvas Profile: Capturing the Forces of Nature, 2014

Portland Press Herald, Environmentally Tuned-in Artists Pay Respects to 'Silent Spring',

by Daniel Kany, 6/23/13

 

Auctions:           

2020-2024    Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment, Farm to Easel Auction          

    2004-2014     Maine College of Art Auction, Portland, ME 

    2009-2011     Paint for Preservation, Cape Elizabeth Land Trust,

                            Cape Elizabeth, ME

    2005-2024     Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine, Portland, ME

    2006-2014     Waynflete School, Portland, Maine

    2004-2011     Heartwood College of Art, Paint the Port, Kennebunk, ME

    2008-2010     Paint Bath, Chocolate Church, Bath, Maine

    2001-2008     Laudholm Trust Painterly Day, Wells, ME

    2006-2008    Trust in Art, Kennebunkport Conservation Trust,

                            Kennebunkport, Maine

    2006-2008     Maine Audubon Art Auction, Falmouth, ME

    2000-2006     Kennebunk Land Trust, Kennebunk, ME

    2002-2006     Visiting Nurse-Home Health Auction, Scarborough, ME

    2002-2004     Florence Griswold Museum Summer Auction, Old Lyme, CT

    2005-2008     Lyme Academy of Fine Arts Ball, Old Lyme, CT

 

Education:

    Boston University, B.A. Art History

    American College in Paris, Art and Art History

    Independent Study with Peter Seltzer, PSA

    Independent Study with Frank Federico, PSA, NWA

 

Awards:

    2005              Honorable Mention, River Club Art Show, Kennebunkport, ME

    2001              Art Hahn 3rd Place Award, WSCH Portland Sidewalk Art

    2001              Blue Ribbon, River Tree Center for the Arts, Critters exhibition

    2001              Merit Award, Saco Sidewalk Art Festival, Saco, ME

    2000              Presidents Award, Pastel Painters of Maine, International Exhibition

   1999               People’s Choice Award, Old Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT

 

Teaching Positions:

    2015-2019      Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, ME

    2008               Haystack, Deer Isle, MAEA Conference

    2005-2008     Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

    2000-2005     River Tree Center for the Arts, Kennebunk, ME

    2002-2014      Star Island International Affairs Conference, Star Island, NH

    2000-2005      Wells Estuarine Research Reserve, Wells, ME

    2000-2003      Heartwood College of Art, Kennebunk, ME

 

Selected Public Collections:

    Laudholm Trust at the Wells Estuarine Research Reserve

    Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratories

    WCSH Channel 6, Portland, ME