JoyceAudyZarIns.com
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Joyce Audy Zarins. Creation as a Profession
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Joyce Audy Zarins was born in 1949 and grew up in Lawrence, MA, a former mill town. Her interests in art and the phenomena of nature developed consistently, leading her to Massachusetts College of Art, then later to the University of New Hampshire and eventually the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she used natural materials and forms in her work and experimented with new media. She has received grants for sculpture performances and outdoor installations relating to natural forces.
Between 1980 and 1996 Joyce Audy Zarins wrote five and illustrated twenty children’s books (some under the name dos Santos) related to the natural world, mythology and human experience. She also writes occasional articles for Art New England, PortFolio magazine and other periodicals. She exhibited paintings for years that relied on visual metaphors and has also explored printmaking. Over the past fifteen years years she has given workshops in the writing and illustration of children’s books at the University of New Hampshire and teaches drawing classes in the Art Department at a college in Lowell where the worldly mix of students assures vibrant creative energy.
Her commitment to arts advocacy is evidenced by her two six-year terms on the Merrimac Cultural Council, involvement with the Visual Arts Committee at the Firehouse Center for the Arts in Newburyport, and she is a founding member of the Amesbury Artists’ Network. For five years she helped organize the Maudslay Outdoor Sculpture exhibit, and has curated sculpture and photography shows. She is the sculpture co-ordinator for the new Somerby’s Landing Sculpture Park.
