Joy has been painting full-time since graduating with her  B.A. from the University of Maryland in 2003.   She is especially inspired by her surroundings in Park City and Alta, Utah.   She often travels to paint on location in the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.  These trips give her time to make careful observations of wildlife and the natural landscape.  She can then apply this knowledge in her studio paintings.   She uses acrylic paint on canvas or masonite.

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Joy is the first professional artist in her family.  She has always loved  painting.   In elementary school, she enjoyed painting cartoons on wood and cutting them out on a scroll saw for all of her friends.  She credits her first painting lessons from the easy-going television host of The Joy of Painting series, Bob Ross.  Joy formally studied painting as a Studio Art major in college.  She graduated as valedictorian from Montgomery College in 2001 with an Associate of Arts degree.  In her speech she discussed the importance of following your dreams.  She addressed the intense, immediate pressure from those closest to you to go out and fit into society with an acceptable career of stature.  Joy spoke of how a choice like a career in the arts would automatically mean you agree to suffer and become outcast.  Yet to Joy these unforeseeable future obstacles will dissolve when you truly believe in your choices, thereby giving you more momentum to become unstoppable. 

Joy was honored to receive two full tuition scholarships for art and academic achievement to the University of Maryland.  There she was asked by her drawing professor to teach an undergraduate drawing class about her personal techniques for realistic drawing.

Today, Joy's work can be seen on permanent display in the National  Ability Center  in Park City, Utah.  In 2006, the N.A.C. asked her to do a commemorative painting for the 2006 National Disabled Alpine Championships.   She is frequently asked to  submit her work for auctions to benefit the local Olympic and Paralympic athletes training in Park City.  In July, 2006, Joy was chosen by the President of the National Sports Foundation to be the representative artist for a feature story in The Park Record newspaper.  Joy's prints are also sold at the Alta Goldminer's Daughter Gallery during the winter ski season.

Joy maintains studios in Park City, Utah and Darnestown, Maryland.  Her hobbies include skiing, biking, scroll saw art, photography, and performing as a cellist in the  "M3 Trio"  with her two sisters, Bonnie and Emily for formal events. 

 

Resume:

- 2006- Newspaper:  featured in the Park Record newspaper as the representative

              artist for the National Sports Foundation Auction.

- 2006- Commemorative Painting for the National Ability Center's "2006 National Alpine Championships" in 

              Park City.

 

-2005- Solo Exhibition:  A Reason to Pause at  the Kentlands Mansion, Gaithersburg, MD.

- 2004- Solo Exhibition: Pop's Shop at the Arts Club of Washington, in Washington, D.C.

- 2004- Solo Exhibition: Pop's Shop at the Black Rock Center for the Arts, in Germanton, MD.

 -2004- Television:  Artworks This Week  television show featured artist for the Pop's Shop exhibition.

-2003- Juried National Transfer Exhibition at the Montgomery College Art Gallery, Rockville, MD.

-2001- First Solo Exhibition: Peace Through Color at the Yellow Barn Gallery in Glen Echo Park, MD.

- 2001- Valedictorian speech to the graduating class at Montgomery College, on her experiences there

              as an artist.

 

 

 

                                        

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