JoAnn Giordano explained

JoAnn Giordano (born 1949, in Newark, NJ)[1] is an American textile artist[2] and curator who has exhibited since 1977.

Education

Giordano has studied at Purdue University, Rhode Island School of Design, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 1988, she earned an MFA in Fiber from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.[3]

Exhibitions

Giordano has shown her work internationally in Mexico and Japan. She has been exhibited in the Cleveland Museum of Art,[4] and the Ohio Craft Museum.[5] She had a one-person exhibitions at the Womans Building in Los Angeles and at Artemisa Gallery[6] in Chicago.[7] Her work was included in an exhibition at the Textile Museum in Washington, DC.

Teaching

An art educator, Giordano has taught since 1979, including classes sponsored by the Cleveland Museum of Art, LaGuardia Community College, Young Audiences of Greater Cleveland, Kent State University and Case Western University.[8]

Reception

Feature articles on her work have appeared in Surface Design Journal and FiberArts magazine,[9] and her work has been reviewed in the New Art Examiner. Surface Design Journal published a five page feature article by Janet Koplos (held in the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art) on Giordano entitled JoAnn Giordano: The Earthy and the Cosmic.[10]

Collections

Giordano's work is in the permanent collection of the Ohio Craft Museum,[11] the Lafayette Museum of Art, Indiana and the Century Center in South Bend, Indiana.[12] The Smithsonian Archives of American Art contains an archive file from the Women's Building with documentation of her work.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Pritchard, Gayle A. Uncommon threads Ohio's art quilt revolution. 2006. Ohio University Press. Athens. English. 928701162.
  2. News: Illusions and Allusions Fill a Show of Fiber Art . Betty Freudenheim . . 19 May 1991 . 28 March 2011.
  3. Book: Westphal . Katherine . The Surface Designer's Art: Contemporary Fabric Printers, Painters, and Dyers . 1993 . Lark Books, University of Michigan Press . 138–143 . 9780937274675 . 31 July 2020.
  4. Turner. Evan H.. 1993. The 1993 May Show: June 9 through September 5 Seventy-Second Exhibition by Artists and Craftsmen of the Western Reserve. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 80. 5. 191–211. 25161414. 0009-8841.
  5. Web site: Carrot_Portrait_Arabesque. 2020-07-12. Ohio Designer Craftsmen.
  6. Lifton . Norma . Reviews Chicago: Nicole Ferentz, JoAnn Giordano, Karen Lyverse . New Art Examiner . 1984 . June 1984 . 22 . 1 August 2020.
  7. Web site: Women's Building archive material: JoAnn Giordano: Playing with Pattern . Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art . 12 July 2020.
  8. Web site: JoAnn Giordano . Case Western University . 13 July 2020.
  9. JoAnn Giordano: Silkscreener . Fiber Arts Magazine . 60, 64 . 1 August 2020.
  10. Koplos . Janet . JoAnn Giordano: The Earthy and the Cosmic . Surface Design . Fall 1984 . 16–20 . 1 August 2020.
  11. Web site: JoAnn Giordano Carrot Portrait Arabesque . Ohio Craft Museum . 12 July 2020.
  12. Web site: JoAnn Giordano: Playing with Pattern . Collection title: Women's Building records . Smithsonian Institution . 31 July 2020.

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