Her work involved sculpture using carved, assembled and highly painted wood with gold and silver leaf and encaustic.
Azara's other art pieces involved collages, banners, prints where she continuously reshaped the elements and materials.
Known for her artwork that encompasses feminism, healing and individual connection to the divine, she developed her political views and signature style as a part of the 1970s feminist art movement in the United States.
Within the context of group sessions, students concentrated on developing a better understanding of themselves and their position as women before embarking on the study of artistic technique.
The chronic shortage of funding ultimately forced NYFAI to close in 1990, although some of its innovative art programs continue in other venues.
In 2004, she was commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in Hamilton, New Jersey to create a piece that honored the doctors’ service.
In 2015 through August 8 – September 6, 2015, her exhibition Shifting Ecologies II, curated by Marianne Van Lentwas at The Athens Cultural Center.
"An exhibition displaying artists withdrawing from the digital, media, and public fray within which we live to make their art out of their own mind experience.
"Nancy Azara’s work in the upcoming exhibition, Meeting of the Birds, includes: seven mixed media works, collages on paper from the Crow and Sandal Series, three banners made with crow imagery, sized to the gallery’s windows; a series of sculptures carved in wood with steel, painted and gilded, and a selection of small paintings".
She co-presented a paper on the topic with Katie Cercone at the 2012 CAA Conference in Los Angeles, "Necessary Positions: Intergenerational collaboration in feminist art and activism" and a panel Recovering a Lost Cultural Herstory 1969–1982: NYC Feminist Artists Speak Out, organized by Nancy Azara, Marjorie Kramer and Kay Turner with Prof. Aseel Sawalha, PhD, Assoc.
Simple shapes and forms became her muse, "realizing they had emotional import as an expression in shapes and colors of the emotional dialogue taking place" [19] Azara’s work records a journey of spirit, memory, and ideas around the unseen and the unknown, reflecting on time and mortality through facets of her personal history as a female artist.
It’s been a long struggle, but a heartening one to come to, to find so many women artists working, and showing, speaking in their art about their visions, their lives, translating into color and form their unique voices—making public their presence.
The Circle with Seven Hands5" x 40" is a large, protected enclosure that sometimes has a human presence, a great mother, and sometimes is a dwelling has a golden red sunset glow emanating from the inside.
The Great Coat10"x 3" x 2" is a large, lustrous, tall garment with the sense of a human having worn it and of having left its radiance in the coat manifesting a spirit intrinsic to us all.