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  • What's New?
  • Home
  • Step Inside Our Gallery
  • Join a January 2021 Class!
    • The Basics of Watercolor -- Not Necessarily for Beginners -- Jan. 2021
    • Pencil Drawing Class, Jan. 7, 2021
    • Pencil-Drawing Class, Jan. 14, 2021
    • Pencil-Drawing Class, Jan. 21, 2021
    • Pencil-Drawing Class, Jan. 28, 2021
    • Promoting Your Art for 2021
    • Baket Weaving -- Market Basket Rerun
    • Wire-Wrapped/Sculpture Bracelet Class
  • Join a February Class!
    • February: The Basics of Watercolor -- Not Necessarily for Beginners
    • Pencil Drawing Class, Feb. 4
    • Pencil Drawing Class, Feb. 18
    • Pencil Drawing Class, Feb. 25
    • Valentine Calligraphy
    • Facebook Basics to Promote Your Art
    • Spiral Weave Vase
    • Make a List. Check It Twice. Publish a List Poem.
  • Applications
  • Events and Announcements
  • Art Festival
  • Art Scholarship
  • Meet Our Board
  • Artists A-J
    • Michael Bouldin
    • Sandra Copenhaver
    • Susan Jane Donohoe
    • Bonnie Eads
    • Ronee Giannetta
    • Bridget Hanley
    • Barrie Harding
    • Susan Davis Jones
    • Donna Josephson
  • Artists K-P
    • Tom Kinney
    • Meredith McCartan
    • Margaret (Peg) Midgley
    • Gayle Miller
    • Lois Moore
    • Bob Nerney
    • Marie Nerney
    • Jan Obrebski
    • Kay Placek
    • Richard Placek
    • Marily-Anne Pletcher
    • Sue Primeau
  • Artists Q-Z
    • Linda Reitz
    • John Romaine
    • Lynda Ryan
    • Sally Saxton
    • Nan Toma
    • Leslie White
    • Margo Wilson
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    • Drawings: Pen and Ink, Pencil, Colored Pencil
    • Fabric Art, Quits, Scarves, Wearable Art
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Nan Toma
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    Polymer clay artist Nan Toma was born and raised in St. Louis and has been in motion ever since, moving 19 times since she was married.
     "No, we're not running from the law," she says. "Just hubby's career moves. I think we're here to stay."
     Nan is Rainbow Springs Art in Dunnellon's most recent member. Her specialty is items like rainbow-speckled fish, playful teapots, kaleidoscopic jewelry, and sassy birds modeled from polymer clay.
     But clay is just one of her more recent obsessions.
      Nan studied art at Washington University and Central Methodist College in Missouri before leaving to get married.
     She's run an antique shop with a friend, selling consignment art. She returned to school at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, where she became enamored of beads because of a professor, and also took a summer metalsmithing program.
     She opened and ran a bead shop until her family moved again. She then took watercolor and acrylics classes, focusing on abstract paintings and collages. For a moment, she dabbled in gourd-carving. She studied stained glassmaking for years. 
     Then, 3-1/2 years ago, she happened upon a polymer clay class that "opened my eyes to the versatility ... the possibilities. ... I was hooked," she said.
     She is a member of the Orlando Area Polymer Clay Guild and On Top of the World's Claymates Polymer Clay Club.
     She and her husband have two children, two grandchildren, and two dogs.


Buy Nan's Work

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Polymer Clay Figure Holder

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Polymer Clay Fish Earrings
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Polymer Clay Pendant 1
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Polymer Clay Earrings 1
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Polymer Clay Pendant 2
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