A mid-westerner all her life, Joanie grew up in Cincinnati, where, after high school, she attended the Academy of Communicative Arts. After graduating from ACA, Joanie held a number of jobs in advertising and design industries before moving to a career as a full-time artist. Over the last twenty years, Joanie has worked in textiles, pottery, concrete, and wood, and found her true calling in bending and welding steel and metal into unique sculptures for the landscape.
Joanie has exhibited in numerous local and state-wide galleries. She displays her work at local, regional, and national art shows, where she has drawn a loyal following. She uses nature as her inspiration to create contemporary yet whimsical and functional garden art that accentuates the landscape, and without overpower it. Using mostly sheet metal, rebar, and recycled objects, Joanie lets the art weather to a natural patina.
Joanie currently lives and works in Noblesville, Indiana, with her two sons and her husband. She won the Best in Show award at Penrod Art Fair in 2008.
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