Nancy Beal has taught art to children for 30 years at the Village Community School in New York City. She captured her teaching experience and philosophy in her book, The Art of Teaching Art to Children in School and at Home, published in 2001. Prior to her art teaching career, she was a classroom teacher. She received a Master of Arts in Early Childhood from Bank Street College of Education in New York City. She has shown her paintings in and around New York, and is a founding member of the Bowery Gallery in New York City and the Flywheel Gallery in Piermont, New York. She lives with her family in Manhattan.