Nicole received a BFA degree from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. There she studied under some of New York’s most current and influential working artists, graduating Summa Cum Laude. She worked in various factions of the Visual Arts World, primarily working on her own paintings and freelance commissions as well as working in Children’s Book Illustration, as an Art Department Assistant on movie sets in New York, and as an Art Instructor to the Elementary and Middle school levels. 

        She also followed a professional dance career at the same time, earning her MA degree in Dance Performance from the University of Limerick in Ireland, touring and traveling the world for 7 years with critically acclaimed Irish Dance productions such as Riverdance the Show and Ragus an Seo. She is now the owner and Instructor of the McKeever School of Irish Dance in Sacramento, CA.