JoAnn Giordano (born 1949, in Newark, NJ) is an

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and curator who has exhibited since 1977.

Education

Giordano has studied at

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, and the

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. In 1988, she earned an MFA in

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from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Exhibitions

Giordano has shown her work internationally in

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and

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. She has been exhibited in the

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, and the Ohio Craft Museum. She had a one-person exhibitions at the Womans Building in Los Angeles and at Artemisa Gallery in Chicago. Her work was included in an exhibition at the

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in Washington, DC.

Teaching

An art educator, Giordano has taught since 1979, including classes sponsored by the Cleveland Museum of Art,

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, Young Audiences of Greater Cleveland,

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and

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Reception

Feature articles on her work have appeared in ''Surface Design Journal'' and ''FiberArts'' magazine, and her work has been reviewed in the ''

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''. ''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''.

Collections

Giordano's work is in the permanent collection of the Ohio Craft Museum, the Lafayette Museum of Art, Indiana and the

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in South Bend, Indiana. The Smithsonian Archives of American Art contains an archive file from the Women's Building with documentation of her work.

References

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