Jo-Anne Green
| Jo-Anne Green | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jo-Anne Green 14 August 1959 Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 💼 Occupation | Artists Books, Arts Administrator, Digital Artist, Educator, Painter, Photographer, Printmaker, Writer |
Jo-Anne Green (born August 14, 1959 Johannesburg, South Africa) is an artist, arts administrator, writer, and educator who lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Green has exhibited her artwork in Johannesburg, Boston, and New York, mounting her first solo exhibition at Different Angle Gallery in 1990.[1] The opening of the exhibition celebrated Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress.
Green co-founded Cultural Resistance, organizing South African art exhibitions and video screenings, and designing and publishing a monthly newsletter, UNCENSORED, with her collaborators Kim Berman and Rachel Weiss. Cultural Resistance was a project of Fund for a Free South Africa (FreeSA) where she volunteered from 1984-1990, culminating in Nelson Mandela’s visit to Boston.
Green was co-director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. from 2002-2016 where she founded Upgrade! Boston and curated exhibitions at Art Interactive[2], funded by the LEF Foundation) and the Huret & Spectre Gallery (funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts). She also co-curated the world renowned net art site, Turbulence.org, as well as several exhibitions at Pace Digital Gallery(PDG), Manhattan, NY. Green co-organized multiple symposia at PDG as well as the Floating Points speaker series at Emerson College, Boston MA.
Education[edit]
Green attended the University of the Witwatersrand where she graduated with a BFA Honours in Printmaking, majoring in Art History and Painting, in 1981. In 1983, she moved to the United States where she attended Southeastern Massachusetts University (now UMASS Dartmouth) and Lesley University, graduating with an MFA in Visual Arts (1989) and an MA in Arts Administration (2003). Green also completed numerous Computer courses at the University of New Mexico, including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver.
Early Personal Life[edit]
Jo-Anne Green is one of five children born to Jewish parents who descended from English, German, Lithuanian and Polish emigrants to South Africa in the early twentieth century. She attended [[Fairmount Primary School and Sandringham High School. A gifted athlete, she played netball, tennis, and field hockey. She swam for her province (Transvaal), and captained the swim team at both schools, winning numerous Freestyle, Butterfly and Individual Medley races over a period of twelve years. She twice received school Colours for, and captained, the Field Hockey team, and played league hockey for Highlands North. Green was also named Prefect of her 1976 matriculation class. In 1979, she was accepted to Bezelal College of Art in Jerusalem. She lived on Tel Katzir Kibbutz and attended a Hebrew course at Beersheva University before deciding to return to South Africa to complete her undergraduate degree.
Personal Life[edit]
Green has lived in Boston for thirty two years and in Albuquerque, New Mexico (UNM) from 1996-2001. She worked as a Graphic Designer at the University of New Mexico’s High Performance Computing Center where she founded the artist-in-residence program that led to the formation of the Art Technology Center (ATC)[3]: it was there, in 2001, that she met her current partner Helen L. Thorington. Green was Program Coordinator for both the ATC and the Arts of the Americas Institute at UNM from 1999-2001. She returned to Boston in 2001, and joined New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. in 2002: she designed websites, brochures, logos and postcards; and engaged in grant writing and fundraising, among other responsibilities.
Artist[edit]
Green had her first art exhibition, with Kim Berman, in Johannesburg (1982). She made prints, paintings, artist’s books and installations, many of them grappling with Apartheid, violence, and chronic pain which she suffered for more than thirty years. In 1989, her MFA Thesis exhibition was accepted by the Cambridge Multicultural Arts, Center; she participated in numerous group exhibitions in Boston and New York. Her one-of-a-kind artist book, “Waiting and Remembering,” was acquired by the Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts at Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa where it was shown at the inaugural exhibition of the collection.
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts Opening Exhibition, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa | Group | 2019 |
| Five, Greylock Arts, Adams, Massachusetts, United Sates | Group | 2012 |
| Greylock's Anatomy, Greylock Arts, Adams, Massachusetts | Group | 2011 |
| Violence Online Festival 6.0, newmediafest.org | Group | 2003 |
| Coming and Going: Beyond the Homeland, Cambridge Multicultural Art Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts | Group | 1992 |
| Caution Art, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts | Group | 1991 |
| Voices From South African Artists, Stuart Levy Gallery, New York, New York | Group | 1990 |
| Well, as a result... Different Angle Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts[4] | Solo | 1990 |
| Works on South Africa and Slavery, Cambridge Multicultural Art Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989[5] | Two-person | 1989 |
| Five South African Artists, 301 Huron Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts | Group | 1989 |
| Evils of Power, UMASS Dartmouth Art Gallery, Dartmouth, Massachusetts | Group | 1986 |
| Women's Work: Political Art by Women, Femmecore Space, Boston, Massachusetts | Group | 1986 |
| Choices: Four South African Artists, Four Walls Gallery, Hoboken, New Jersey | Group | 1986 |
| Between the Covers: Artist's Handmade Books, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts | Group | 1985 |
| Symphonies and the System, Trevor Coleman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa | Two-person | 1982 |
| Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|
| KIKI: Migrant Family Life in a South African Compound, a traveling exhibition of photographs by Roger Meintjies; Clark University, Worcester, MA; New England School of Photography, Boston, MA; Pianocraft Gallery, Boston, MA; Boston Public Library, Boston, MA; and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia | Co-curator | 1991 |
| South African Mail: Messages from Within, Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts | Co-curator | 1991 |
| An Act of Resistance: Making Community(ies), Mobius, Boston, Massachusetts | Co-curator | 1993 |
| DIY or DIE: an Upgrade! New York, Turbulence and Rhizome Net Art Exhibition, IAO Gallery, Upgrade! International Oklahoma City, OK and online at Rhizome.org and Turbulence.org | Co-curator | 2006 |
| David Crawford: Retrospective, Pace Digital Gallery, New York, New York[6] | Co-curator | 2010 |
| Arrested Time: Nathaniel Stern with Jessica Meuninck-Ganger, Greylock Arts, Adams, Massachusetts[7] | Curator | 2010 |
| Networked Realities: (Re)Connecting the Adamses, Greylock Arts and MCLA Gallery 51, Adams, Massachusetts[8] | Co-curator | 2008 |
| Internet Art in the Global South, Johannesburg Art Fair, South Africa | Co-curator | 2009 |
| Turbulence.org New England Initiative II: Networked Art Commissions, Art Interactive, Cambridge Massachusetts | Curator | 2006 |
See http://sympoietic.net/jo/cv.html
Nonprofit[edit]
CO-DIRECTOR: New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.(NRPA), March 2002-2016. NRPA was founded in 1981 to foster the development of new and experimental work for radio and sound arts. It commissioned and distributed 300 works for New American Radio (newamericanradio.org). In early 1996, NRPA extended its mandate to net art and launched Turbulence.org. Turbulence commissioned, exhibited, and archived works that creatively explored the Internet as a site of production and transmission; and supported experimentation with distributed real-time multilocation performance events. It was also home to two world-renowned blogs: Networked_Performance and Networked_Music_Review. Other major projects include Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art); Mixed Realities; Networked Realities: (Re)Connecting the Adamses; Upgrade! Boston; and Floating Points.
References[edit]
- ↑ Silver. Joanne, "Green’s art digs into her African roots." Boston Herald, Boston, Massachusetts, March 30, 1990
- ↑ McQuaid, Cate. Most illuminating (in Capturing the overlooked), Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, August 20, 2008
- ↑ Mellas-Ramirez, Laurie. UNM Arts Extends Scope with New Research Centers, Public Affairs, University of New Mexico, August 22, 2000.
- ↑ "Boston Arts Listing 3-19-1990" (PDF). Unknown parameter
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "David Crawford: Retrospective" (PDF). Pace Digital Gallery. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Green, Jo-Anne. "Arrested Time Curatorial Statement". Greylock Arts. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Networked Realities: (Re)Connecting The Adamses". Greylock Arts. Unknown parameter
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