News and Educational Articles

Honduras Trip 2011
In their trip to Honduras, Ana and Eric Nisly the owners of NE Design, traveled to Juticalpa, Olancho taking several suitcases full of clothing and toys for all ages of children. Half of the items were baby clothes, baby blankets, cloth diapers, and toddler toys that were taken to the baby wing at Juticalpa’s hospital where mothers travel long distances for health care but often times do not have sufficient clothing for their new born children. The remaining items were taken to the orphanage in town which currently houses 38 young children. There we left an assortment of cloths for the children, passed out little items for them like hair clips, and pulled out an assortment of toys from the Suitcases making the children very happy. Before we left the orphanage we also rose up a piñata and all had fun taking swings and collecting little treats.

Please check back soon to see the photos from this trip.

Breast Feeding Exhibition
Eric Nisly was honored as the top artist at an exhibition in Evansville including receiving the top purchase award. Out of 51 artiest selected to be part of the exhibition with the theme of breast feeding, Eric's photographs from his collections Expressions of the Figure were highlighted in the show. To see samples from this collection go to NE Fine Art

Individual Artist Program Awards Grant to Eric Nisly
Photographer Eric Nisly will be working on an exhibition “Lives of the Served and Servers, a Documentary of 5 Non-Profit Organizations.” Photographic documentation of the volunteers working in non-profit organizations and the lives of those they touch in the Elkhart County area.

Description of the Project
I will select 5 non-profit agencies in the Elkhart County area to do a documentary photography exhibition.

In this series of photographs I want to visually express their services and benefits to the community. When people look at these images, I want them to feel touched and connected to the people in the organizations and the services to become real and alive.

Photography is what I do best, it is my desire and honor, to use this gift to help these organizations in the community, in a way that educates, entertains, and aids in the advancement of their services. Producing photographs for them to use in publication, web sites, and public relation announcements, allowing them to better do what they do best, serve and help people.

The project will start with the final selection of 5 community impacting organizations. Then I will schedule photo shots with them using a representative to work out the logistics of scheduling times with members willing to give consent for the use of images in publications. I will use the photos to build a web gallery with information and photos of each group. Final selection of 4 photos per group will be made to mat and frame the photos for a photo exhibition.

The photographs and information about the organizations involved can be viewed at www.nefineart.com.