Joseph Ziolkowski

I am a moody and detail-oriented creature that craves awesome sunsets, overcast days when the wind doesn't blow, and fish. Fish are so cool! I have a real knack for art, at least that's what other people tend to tell me, so I stuck with it. Turns out I am pretty good. I've learned to love food too, I've got a real soft spot for pho', noodles, and anything with the word steak involved.

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Joseph Ziolkowski is a fourth-generation Montanan, born in 1975 in Lewistown, Montana.
As a young artist, he was influenced by his family, many of whom art artists themselves, Joe has been immersed in the arts for as long as he can remember. Influences on his path as an artist include. Clarence Cuts The Rope, a deceased local artist, taught Joe’s brother Peter sculpting and painting for some time in the early 80s. Several of Joe’s earliest memories of watercolor painting are with Peter in the kitchen of their parent’s home in Central Montana. Anne Armont, a well­known oil painter who worked for Joe’s father, taught Joe oil painting classes in the late 80s. Gordon Russel; Joes Lewistown Junior High art teacher, is a diverse artist in many mediums and a much-appreciated figure of the Lewistown arts and educ...

Clarence Cuts the Rope
James Borgreen
Gordon Russell
Dan Deegan (Seattle)
The now-defunct Art Institute of Seattle.