JOAN HALL
Born in New York City to art professionals, I began training in my teen years with the Martha Graham Dance Studio. Following a course of study at the Juilliard School, a company membership with The American Mime Theater provided the opportunity for me to teach American Mime at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.
With early experience in the dramatic arts as a guide, I designed sets and costumes for the ballet Yequana for The Nederlands Dans Theater, Den Haag.
Returning to my early roots, an interest in collage and assemblage began to take shape with parallel careers in commercial illustration and the fine arts. With an invitation from Milton Glaser to conduct classes in Collage for Illustration, my teaching career at the School of Visual Arts was launched in 1978.
International fine art venues have been concurrent with commercial applications. The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico, are among the institutions where my art has been on view. At home in New York, Pavel Zoubok and the South Street Seaport Museum have hosted two of my one-person exhibitions. Illustration credits include editions of my collage and assemblage for TIME, The NYTimes, Atlantic Records, and many other publications.
I have also lectured to many organizations on Collage: Past & Present illustrated by a PowerPoint presentation. The American Cultural Centers have commissioned these lectures in France, India, Brazil, and Mexico. I was honored to receive a CEDADESU Mexican/American Cultural Specialists Grant from the US State Dept. to present my lecture on Collage, Assemblage, and the Environment and to conduct 10 workshops to train educators to teach recycling through the art of collage.
I have also been writing poems since I was a child. In 2018 I won The Miriam Chaikin Foundation Award for poetry. Two of my books have recently been published and are available on Amazon. (See LINKS)
Returning to my early roots, an interest in collage and assemblage began to take shape with parallel careers in commercial illustration and the fine arts. With an invitation from Milton Glaser to conduct classes in Collage for Illustration, my teaching career at the School of Visual Arts was launched in 1978.
International fine art venues have been concurrent with commercial applications. The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico, are among the institutions where my art has been on view. At home in New York, Pavel Zoubok and the South Street Seaport Museum have hosted two of my one-person exhibitions. Illustration credits include editions of my collage and assemblage for TIME, The NYTimes, Atlantic Records, and many other publications.
I have also lectured to many organizations on Collage: Past & Present illustrated by a PowerPoint presentation. The American Cultural Centers have commissioned these lectures in France, India, Brazil, and Mexico. I was honored to receive a CEDADESU Mexican/American Cultural Specialists Grant from the US State Dept. to present my lecture on Collage, Assemblage, and the Environment and to conduct 10 workshops to train educators to teach recycling through the art of collage.
World travel has always been a great inspiration. My itinerary includes numerous locations in Europe, China, Tibet, India, Africa, Cambodia, Brazil, and Central America. Locally, I live and work in my studio at Westbeth in Greenwich Village and a country retreat in the Hudson Valley Valley, New York.
