DRC Plenary: Joan Snyder, 2010-11 Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist-in-Residence

Wednesday, February 28, 2011

Joan Snyder received the MacArthur Fellowship Award (popularly known as the "Genius Award") in 2007, and her paintings have been exhibited widely throughout the United States. She founded the Women Artist Series at Douglass College in 1971 (which has since then been renamed the Mary H. Dana Women Artist Series). A concurrent survey exhibition of her small paintings from 1965-2010, Joan Snyder/Intimate Works, is on view at the Mabel Smith Douglass Library Galleries through June 5, 2011. Her work is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Jewish Museum in New York City, as well as in other major museums.

Joan Snyder will also be inducted into the Hall of Distinguished Alumni during the annual awards gala on Saturday, May 7, 2011.

Co-sponsors: Associate Alumnae of Douglass College, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions and Visual Arts Department/MGSA, Douglass Residential College, The Feminist Art Project, Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers University Alumni Foundation, Rutgers University Libraries, the Women Artists Archives National Directory, and Department of Women's and Gender Studies.

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