Who is Romney Nesbitt?

Romney Nesbitt is a Creativity Coach, artist, author, and art teacher with a B.F.A. in art, M.A. in Art and a Master of Divinity degree. Nesbitt is the author of SECRETS FROM A CREATIVITY COACH (2008 BuoyUp Press). Her book is available online at Amazon.com and www.AWOC.com.

Romney writes a creativity coaching column titled “Ask a Creativity Coach” and articles on the business of art for Art Focus Oklahoma Magazine. To read her archived articles log on to www.ovac-ok.org and look for the “Business of Art” section in the table of contents. Nesbitt is a speaker for the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition’s newly formed ARTiculate Speakers Bureau. For a listing of her workshops go to www.articulateOK.org.

Romney has worked in the art field for over 30 years as a painter, art teacher, community college professor, illustrator, and courtroom artist. She taught a series of classes on creativity for Tulsa Community College’s continuing education department. As an adjunct professor at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the spring of 2010 she taught “Spirituality and the Arts.”

She presents workshops on the creative process locally and nationally. In the summer of 2010 she presented her popular creativity workshop, “Creative Block-Busters” at the West Texas A&M University Writers’ Academy in Canyon, Texas and at Romance Writers of America’s national conference in Orlando, Florida.

In her coaching practice, she helps people problem-solve their way out of limiting thinking in order to reach their creative goals. Trained by Eric Maisel, America’s top Creativity Coach, Nesbitt is past-President of Tulsa NightWriters and a member of Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Tulsa Artists Coalition, and Oklahoma Writers’ Federation Inc. Romney was recently chosen 2010 Oklahoma Visual Arts Fine Arts Educator by the Oklahoma State Department of Education and The Oklahoma Alliance for Arts Excellence. She teaches art for Jenks Public Schools.