Joy Patty
[email protected]
http://www.joypatty.weebly.com
Work Experience
* Independent artist, art educator
* Elementary art teacher and Gallery Coordinator
The Lovett School, Atlanta, GA
* Head of Adult Education, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
* Curator of Education, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
* Education Coordinator, The Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX
* Coordinator, Older Adults Art, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
* Additional professional activity: public art programs for SCAD-Atlanta “Art for All.” Workshops include Atlanta Gallery Crawls, Collage/Mixed Media, Experimental Painting, and Coordinator/Instructor for “Art Smarts,” summer art camp for kids.
Exhibitions and sales:
2006-present The Lovett School, annual Friends of the Arts show and sale
Fall 2021-Winter 2022 Artists Market, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta GA, Graffiti Flowers
May 2023 Museum of Contemporary Art, GA annual Off the Wall Pin-Up Show + Sale, Derby Day collage
June 16-July 29, 2023 juried exhibition Sights & Insights, Chastain Arts Center & Gallery, Into the Woods
October 28-December 1, 2023 Tannery Row Artist Colony Fall Juried Exhibition, Into the Woods #2.
March 9-April 26, 2024 Tannery Row Artist Colony Spring Juried Exhibition, Distant Places II and Places to Remember (yellow)
Experiences that have inspired me:
Born and raised in northeast Tennessee, I enjoyed exposure to private art classes, ballet, and piano—mother was a music major - a piano teacher who also enjoyed sewing and textiles. I liked swimming and hiking with my sisters and father, an organic chemist who loved photography. Visual art held my curiosity through my teens and college years at Queens College in Charlotte, North Carolina. After marriage and time spent in Puerto Rico, it was a move to Texas when my first in-depth art experiences happened. In Houston, while I dabbled in “the world of luxury” as a haute couture model for Neiman Marcus, I was happy to wear torn jeans to study painting, drawing and printmaking at the Glassell School of Art, a division of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. As a student at Glassell and with sponsorship from the Museum of Fine Art Houston, I organized an art program for inner city older adults. It was inspiring to see that art makes a difference at all ages and stages of life. An example is Ezekiel Gibbs, now a recognized Texas outsider artist, who was one of my first students. Mr. Gibbs was 80 years old when he started taking classes. A job transfer moved our family to Dallas TX and it was there that I decided to delve deeper into art education as a profession. I accepted a fellowship to complete a masters degree in art education at Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts. During the course of my work/study fellowship, I gained experience working with educators and curators at SMU’s The Meadows Museum, the leading U.S. institution focused on the study and presentation of the art of Spain. Through that experience I knew that art museum education would be my focus. My thesis was to develop a multi-visit museum/studio program for elementary students—“Children, Imagination, Museums.” Creative writing, dramatization and observation activities in the galleries enhanced student understanding and became a springboard for their art projects. After graduation art museum education formed the focus of my career, first as curator of education at the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, a museum that focuses on art since 1945. Then after relocating to Atlanta to be closer to our extended family, I joined the staff at the High Museum of Art as head of adult education. Working closely with talented curators and directors, I organized a plethora of interpretive educational programs related to collections and special exhibitions. However, a change in my professional direction came with staff reorganization at the High. Searching for my next venture, I started to teach adult workshops at SCAD-Atlanta and eventually classroom art at The Lovett School. I was reenergized artistically working with the public and then with children. I relished going hands-on with studio materials, to create lesson plans, plan field trips, and work with local collectors and artists. Professional conferences, travel, art workshops in the US, Mexico, South America, and Asia inspired my teaching and personal art practice. And now, having turned another corner, away from museum education and full-time teaching, my current interests include developing an art-making practice, nesting in a home that I love, volunteering in my community, traveling, and spending quality time with family and friends.
[email protected]
http://www.joypatty.weebly.com
Work Experience
* Independent artist, art educator
* Elementary art teacher and Gallery Coordinator
The Lovett School, Atlanta, GA
* Head of Adult Education, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
* Curator of Education, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
* Education Coordinator, The Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX
* Coordinator, Older Adults Art, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
* Additional professional activity: public art programs for SCAD-Atlanta “Art for All.” Workshops include Atlanta Gallery Crawls, Collage/Mixed Media, Experimental Painting, and Coordinator/Instructor for “Art Smarts,” summer art camp for kids.
Exhibitions and sales:
2006-present The Lovett School, annual Friends of the Arts show and sale
Fall 2021-Winter 2022 Artists Market, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta GA, Graffiti Flowers
May 2023 Museum of Contemporary Art, GA annual Off the Wall Pin-Up Show + Sale, Derby Day collage
June 16-July 29, 2023 juried exhibition Sights & Insights, Chastain Arts Center & Gallery, Into the Woods
October 28-December 1, 2023 Tannery Row Artist Colony Fall Juried Exhibition, Into the Woods #2.
March 9-April 26, 2024 Tannery Row Artist Colony Spring Juried Exhibition, Distant Places II and Places to Remember (yellow)
Experiences that have inspired me:
Born and raised in northeast Tennessee, I enjoyed exposure to private art classes, ballet, and piano—mother was a music major - a piano teacher who also enjoyed sewing and textiles. I liked swimming and hiking with my sisters and father, an organic chemist who loved photography. Visual art held my curiosity through my teens and college years at Queens College in Charlotte, North Carolina. After marriage and time spent in Puerto Rico, it was a move to Texas when my first in-depth art experiences happened. In Houston, while I dabbled in “the world of luxury” as a haute couture model for Neiman Marcus, I was happy to wear torn jeans to study painting, drawing and printmaking at the Glassell School of Art, a division of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. As a student at Glassell and with sponsorship from the Museum of Fine Art Houston, I organized an art program for inner city older adults. It was inspiring to see that art makes a difference at all ages and stages of life. An example is Ezekiel Gibbs, now a recognized Texas outsider artist, who was one of my first students. Mr. Gibbs was 80 years old when he started taking classes. A job transfer moved our family to Dallas TX and it was there that I decided to delve deeper into art education as a profession. I accepted a fellowship to complete a masters degree in art education at Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts. During the course of my work/study fellowship, I gained experience working with educators and curators at SMU’s The Meadows Museum, the leading U.S. institution focused on the study and presentation of the art of Spain. Through that experience I knew that art museum education would be my focus. My thesis was to develop a multi-visit museum/studio program for elementary students—“Children, Imagination, Museums.” Creative writing, dramatization and observation activities in the galleries enhanced student understanding and became a springboard for their art projects. After graduation art museum education formed the focus of my career, first as curator of education at the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, a museum that focuses on art since 1945. Then after relocating to Atlanta to be closer to our extended family, I joined the staff at the High Museum of Art as head of adult education. Working closely with talented curators and directors, I organized a plethora of interpretive educational programs related to collections and special exhibitions. However, a change in my professional direction came with staff reorganization at the High. Searching for my next venture, I started to teach adult workshops at SCAD-Atlanta and eventually classroom art at The Lovett School. I was reenergized artistically working with the public and then with children. I relished going hands-on with studio materials, to create lesson plans, plan field trips, and work with local collectors and artists. Professional conferences, travel, art workshops in the US, Mexico, South America, and Asia inspired my teaching and personal art practice. And now, having turned another corner, away from museum education and full-time teaching, my current interests include developing an art-making practice, nesting in a home that I love, volunteering in my community, traveling, and spending quality time with family and friends.