Joan Danziger (born 1934 New York City) is an American sculptor. She is known for her large sculptures of beetles and hybrid human-animals.

Life

Danziger grew up in

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. She graduated from

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with a B.F.A., and studied at the Art Students League, and the

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in Rome. Her work has been shown at the

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, Rutgers University, and the New Jersey State Museum. Her work is in: the New Orleans Museum of Art; the

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, the

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Reading Public Museum, Reading PA, Childrens Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, Susquehanna Art Museum. She is known for her large sculptures of beetles and hybrid human-animal forms. She resides and works in Washington, D.C. Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by

Mary Beth Edelson Mary Beth Edelson (born Mary Elizabeth Johnson) (6 February 1933 - 20 April 2021) was an American artist and pioneer of the feminist art movement, deemed one of the notable "first-generation feminist artists." Edelson was a printmaker, book art ...

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Ree and Jun Kaneko, Sculptress Joan DanzingerOctober Gathering, 2001, by Joan Danziger
The Sculpture Foundation {{DEFAULTSORT:Danziger, Joan 1934 births Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning alumni Living people Sculptors from New York City 20th-century American women artists Sculptors from New York (state) Art Students League of New York alumni 21st-century American women 20th-century American women sculptors 20th-century American sculptors