Nancy Prager Kamel
Nancy Prager (Kamel) is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Association and Club of Foreign Press Correspondents in the United States.
She is an active painter focused on human rights issues and has had one-man exhibitions throughout the US, Europe, and the Middle East. She served as a US National Commissioner for UNESCO and as Vital Voices Global Partnership Board of Directors and its Main UN Representative.
Recently she organized and led a series of UN panels sponsored by Governments and Agencies on strategic human rights and development issues.
Nancy Prager was BOD UNICEF-USA and Co-director of the United Nations’ “World’s Children’s Day”; she began the first program for disabled children at the Metropolitan Museum.
She was a founding member of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, bringing Arts to the men in the New York prison system, and of the New York foundling home-Art as a voice for abused children. She created and produced the “ Art for Children Survival“-Sothebys auction for UNICEF fundraiser, the American Ballet Theater-art program for student dancers. She also co-created the Metropolitan Museum of Art -Program for disabled children.
Her work was exhibited in national and private museums, universities, and private and corporate group shows in the USA, Italy, France, Canada, England, Turkey (American Embassy, Turkish mission to the United Nations, Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture, United Nations).
Her work was represented in private and corporate collections (USA, Italy, England, Turkey, France, Canada, Serbia, Croatia, Mexico, Switzerland, Germany).
Documented and reviewed in “The worlds whose who of women,” “Who’s who in the world,” “Who is who in America,” “Who is who in the east,” “Foremost women of the 20th century”, “International Who’s Who of professional and businesswomen,” “Men and women of distinction, “ Who is who in the arts, “Artist USA – Bicentennial, “New York art yearbook,” “Fine Arts.” “Nouvelle Littaire”, “Art News”, “Arts”.
Nancy Prager received a BA from Cooper Union College, an MA from Syracuse University and completed the BFA program at the Academia de Belle Arte in Florence, Italy.
She has been awarded the “Grande Prix Humanitaire de France” by the French Government and the “Prix de Paris-Salon Surindependents” in Paris, France.