I love guiding students as they develop into thoughtful, innovative people. It is rewarding to challenge and support them as they reach towards their full potential in art making.
Profile
Using line as a means to form, Joanna’s work explores homeostasis of systems, and the resulting entropy or equilibrium of a self-regulating whole; a glimpse into a living, open system. The renewing of life and growth over time in even the smallest of structures is refreshing to her, and she seeks to create a glimpse of the elegance of the (dis)order she finds so captivating. Joanna has exhibited nationally and internationally, and was a 2016 NCECA Emerging Artist. When she’s not making in clay, she enjoys working on set pieces for the Roberts Student Theater performances.
Joanna teaches courses for the 3D concentration (ceramics and sculpture). She loves mentoring students in ways that develop their ability to find connections between their observations and dynamic visual forms and experiences.
Joanna and her husband, Kyle, live in Rochester, NY and enjoy going on hikes and frequenting the local playgrounds with their two children.
Her artwork can be seen below or at her website: www.joannapoag.com
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Courses Taught
- ARTS 1000 Art & Design Seminar
- ARTS 1040 Studio Foundations [Studio Art Course]
- ARTS 2350 Techniques in Ceramics
- ARTS 3250 Experimental Media [Studio Art Course]
- ARTS 3300 Non-Representational Expression [Studio Art Course]
- ARTS 3410 Context and Meaning [Studio Art Course]
- ARTS 4910 Art & Culture:Modern to Contemporary Issues
- ARTS 4960/70 Senior Capstone - Exhibit/Thesis
Education
- M.F.A | Rochester Institute of Technology
- B.S. | Roberts Wesleyan College