Joyce Owens' artistic activity has taken place mainly on the East Coast and in the Midwest. She was awarded the best of show at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago for the Black Creativity juried exhibit. Owens and her works have been featured in Chicago newspapers and on TV.

		Joyce is also one of the artists featured in the biographical documentary about Marva Jolly, Muddpeoples, which accompanied the 1992 Jacob Lawrence exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. Earlier in her career Owens was employed as an artist and graphic arts coordinator for WBBM-TV Chicago.
		Joyce also taught art and reading at an alternative school for emotionally and socially challenged children in Philadelphia. Owens is currently teaching fine art at Chicago State University. For more photos of the Suite Home Chicago kite couch shown above, please go to www.windycityarts.org.

							Education: Master of Fine Arts: Yale University, New Haven, CN. Bachelor of Fine Arts: Howard University, Washington DC. Exhibitions (Selective list): Vision of the African American Woman -(Bagit Gallery, Chicago), Four Women Artists -(Wood Street Gallery, Chicago), Black Creativity -(Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago), Perceptions of the Other -(Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago), Drawing the Realist Perspective -(Chicago State University), Yale University, Howard University Philadelphia Museum of Art Links: WomanMade Gallery
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