BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... Shelton - USA/ *USA 1950 Joan Fitzsimmons received her B.F.A. from Washington University School of Fine Arts in St. Louis and her M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is presently professor of art at Norwalk Community College, Connecticut. For five years she taught art at Webster Correctional Institute in Cheshire/CT. Ms. Fitzsimmons has also had solo exhibitions at the Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut; Portland State University; The Zone Relay Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute; 4th Street Photo in New York City; Artemisia Gallery and Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago; and Pittsburgh Film-makers. Her work has appeared in group shows, such as "100 Years of Photography, Personal Visions of the 20th Century: The Art and Technology", The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT; "Heaven & Hell", Real Art Ways, Hartford/CT; and "The Exquisite Corpse", Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland. Her work is in The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as well as in various private collections. Ms. Fitzsimmons is a recent recipient of a Weir Farm Artists' residency. Joan Fitzsimmons has lectured on visual techniques and nuances of photography such as "Freezing the Moment" and "Georgia O'Keefe and Photography", at the Stamford branch of the Whitney Museum of American Art; and at Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, on restructuring an image to be photographed. Recently, at Fairfield University, Ms. Fitzsimmons curated "Out of Into", an exhibition of art in corrections. |
