Nina Catherine Nichols nina@sockmonsterforest.com
Nina Nichols is the active president of "The Black Forest Fancies Non-Profit Organization", an experimental community arts promotional group, helping to extend the gifted members of the arts community of New Orleans to work with dreamers all over the world. Nina is a theatrical designer, parade arts teacher, playwright and installation artist working and living in New Orleans. Her work emerges from a fascination with sustainablity, natural diversity, wild pollination and mutation. For her work with local parade arts workshops and theatrical puppetry, Nina and her company received grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Jim Henson Foundation, The Puffin Foundation and the Annenberg Foundation. Nina spent two summers in residence at the Dream Community in Taipei, Taiwan teaching parade arts to aboriginal tribes. Nina's theatrical work has shown at the Marriannenplatz Street Theatre Festival in Berlin Germany, the Tiao Hodzu Theater in Taipei, Taiwan, The Theater for the New City in New York, The Blue Theater in Austin TX, Indianapolis and New Orleans Fringe Festivals and at the Socrates Sculpture Park In Long Island City, NY.

Mission Bringing magic to the spectrum of daily events, embracing the old and beautiful, holding the hidden to the light, honoring the ability of dreamers to accomplish the impossible.