Nell Gottlieb works in multiple media to reexamine her coming of age, white and female in the Jim Crow South, and her heritage as a descendent of slave-owning cotton planters of racism, white supremacy, and settler colonialism. Her ongoing project, Nostos Algos, considers the pain of returning to the South after a long absence, while confronting racists mythologies and the complicated legacies of the region. In 2019, Gottlieb completed the Block Program of the Glassell School of Art at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She has shown her work in national, regional, and local juried shows and had solo exhibits at the Community Artists’ Collective in Houston (2020), the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art (2022), and the Neill-Cochran House Museum in Austin (2022). Two works are in the Houston Hobby Airport Collection. In 2018, after inheriting her family’s 1841 vacant house, she cofounded and gifted the house to a non-profit organization, Klein Arts & Culture, to address promote racial reconciliation through the arts. She is currently president of its Board. She holds a BA and MA (psychology) from Emory University and a PhD (sociology) from Boston University. She is professor emeritus of public health education at The University of Texas at Austin, where she taught from 1980-2011. A native of Alabama, she moved to Texas in 1980.

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