{{Infobox artist | name = Nicole Bartelme | image = | imagesize = | caption = Bartelme at the 2010 premiere of The Western Front | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place =Minneapolis, Minnesota | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = American | field = Photography, Collage, Painting, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Poetry, Performance, Non-Profit | training = Rhode Island School of Design | movement = | works = | patrons = Henry Buhl, Aaron Schwartz | awards = G-Technology's 2013 "Driven Creativity" Competition | spouse = David Bouley }} Nicole Bartelme (born April 17, 1967) is an American artist and the initial founder of The TriBeCa Film Festival in Manhattan, New York City. Bartelme works in multiple genres including photography, interior/set design, poetry and sound. Bartelme received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. Her studies included Illustration, Film and Textiles. She was influenced by Berenice Abbott, Kurt Schwitters, Sebastião Salgado, Romulo A. Yanes, and John Law. TriBeCa As Director of the TriBeCa Partnership in 1997, an initiative of the umbrella organization, Association of Community Employment Programs (ACE), Bartelme left in 2000, to form a new entity: The TriBeCa Film Festival. Proceeds were designed to support ACE's out reach programs for The Homeless in New York City. Her premise for the Festival involved independent films that embrace a common humanity among people with unique sound tracks. The first public call for entries, “Documentary Films: Give Context to World Issues” was printed in the DownTown Express, December Issue, 2000. On December 9, 2001 within an hour after the website tribecafilmfestival.com was launched over 800 inquiries and congratulatory notes were posted. After the attacks to the World Trade Center, Bartelme negotiated and relinquished trade mark and intellectual property rights to The TriBeCa Film Center. Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Trina Wyatt subsequently commenced with the TriBeCa Film Festival in April 2002. Influences Bartelme’s visual art work is influenced by constructivism, with an injection of abstract expressionist painting and printmaking. Some ‘pieces’ are fronted with silk screen on glass pane. The subject provides personal documents or items that comprise these non-traditional portraits. Many combine oil pigments painted on copper with a reference to journalism’s graphic formatting. Columns and headlines are illustrated through torn fragments of texture that represent the body of text/words, punctuated by cast bronze periods. Like artist Kurt Schwitters,