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About The Artist  |
Joan's life as a ceramic artist began in 1969. Since 1995 she has specialized in custom painted ceramic art tiles. So far in 2004 she has completed a custom tile installation for Yoga Mandali Studio and lobster tiles with matching switch plate and outlet covers for a kitchen, both in New York City, where she lives and works.
Her art tiles have been featured in several books, shown in museums and galleries, and purchased for corporate and private collections here and abroad. She has executed custom tile commissions for three veterinary hospitals in New York City, and developed logo tiles for the "al benessere" line of aromatherapy products which debuted in fall 1999 at upscale stores in New York and Los Angeles.
For many years she was a co-owner and president of Brooklyn Artisans Gallery, an artisan owned and operated fine crafts gallery in Brooklyn, until she resigned in 2003 to devote more time to her studio work.
Her work is represented in the slide registries of The Tile Heritage Foundation and the New York City Percent for Art Program.
She has also been a ceramics teacher, taught tile and other ceramics workshops, served as an art show awards judge, written an article for Ceramics Monthly, and been listed in Who's Who in the East, Who's Who of American Women, and Strathmore's Who's Who Millenium Edition, 2000-2001.
RESUME
- Moravian Tile Works Show, Doylestown, PA, May 2008
- Artexpo, New York City 2008
- Artexpo, Las Vegas 2008
- Craft Insider Interview, 2008
- Small Rays of Hope and Fragments of a Larger Idea' at Rhonda Schaller Studio, New York City, 2007
- Clay Festival 2, New York City
- 500 Tiles, Lark Books, 2008
- Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI, 2007
- Tiles for a residential shower stall renovation, New York City, 2007
- Ceramics Show, 2007 Alabama Clay Conference, 2/2007
- NeoCon, with art-exchange.com, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL, 2006
- Ceramics Festival in Soho, New York City, 12/02/2006
- Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts Craft Gallery, 2005 - 2007
- Best of National, Kennedy Promotions, 2006
- Best of New York, Kennedy Promotions, 2006
- The Guild Sourcebook of Residential Art 4 & 5, 2006 & 2007
- The Artful Home #3, THE GUILD, 2005
- Batik Apples tile mural for a kitchen, renovation, New York City 2006
- Frog tiles commission for two kitchen back splashes, New York City 2005
- Bathtub frieze tiles commission, New York City, 2005
- AMACO/Brent 2004 NCECA Invitational Exhibition, Invited participant – Indianapolis, IN
- Ceramic Tile Show New York City 2002 - 2004
- Tile Festival 2002-2007, Moravian Tile Works, Doylestown, PA
- Gallery Tempest, San Francisco, CA
- Tiles featured in A Glaze of Color. J. Davies (ed.), Watson-Guptill, 2004
- Invited to participate in the AMACO/Brent 2004 NCECA Invitational Exhibition, Indianapolis
- From Earth to Fire - 21st Century Tiles, Minnesota Crafts Council 2002
- Tiles in America at The Clay Fine Arts Gallery, Cheyenne, WY 2002
- 2002 elit-tile: International Ceramic Tile Triennial slide show, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 2002
- Artists' Tiles: Beyond Tradition at Pence Gallery, Davis, CA 2001
- Contemporary Tile Makers in America at Tiles in the Capital: A Tile Heritage Foundation Symposium, Washington, DC 2001
- Tiles featured in Ceramic Tile Art for the Home. D. Goletz, Schiffer Publishing 2001
- Fired Up About Clay: A Festival of Tiles at the Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 2001
- Tile purchased for the Permanent Collection of the American Art Clay Co. 2000
- Architecture Award, 4th Annual Silverhawk Fine Craft Competition 1999
- Tiles commissioned for private residences in the US and abroad
- A tile panel purchased for the permanent collection of the American Art Clay Company
- Commisions for tile installations in three veterinary hospitals in New York City
- Commissioned by al benessere, a line of aromatherapy products to develop tiles with their logo
