Read Nancy Sharon Collins' just published article, If Edith Wharton Had Facebooked and see her impossibly thick and luscious Thank You card on Mohawk Fine Papers new blog, Felt & Wire.

Earlier this year she presented Love Letters: American Commercial Engraving, Monograms and Social Stationery at the University of Texas at Austin and Readable Text, New Orleans Style at TypeCon in Atlanta where she also gave the ever popular engraving workshop.

Mrs. Collins is partner in Collins, LLC and is AIGA New Orleans director of Special Projects. In 2008, Thirty by forty inch archival pigment prints of Mrs. Collins’ commercial engraving work were the subject of a solo-exhibit at ABINGDON 12 in New York City and have exhibited at Collin C. Diboll Gallery and New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.

She is the 2007 recipient of three AIGA New Orleans awards for excellence in graphic design including the Steven Heller Judge's Choice. All three were awarded for Mrs. Collins' work with hand engraving.

Also in 2007 she presented “Beauty and the Engraved Line” at the Type Directors Club December Salon in New York City and two of her articles about commercial engraving appeared in “letterspace. The newsletter of the Type Directors Club Fall/Winter 2006.”

Mrs. Collins owned and operated the graphic design firm Nancy Feldman studio in New York City from 1978 to 2004. Clients included WaterfordWedgwood, Clinique, Prescriptives, Revlon, Charles of the Ritz, Curve fragrance, The Metropolitan Opera Shop and the Museum of Modern Art. Her specialty is two-dimensional imaging utilizing advanced technologies as well as those that are arcane.