Jo Gamel

Jo Gamel is a multidisciplinary artist living in Philadelphia. Her process is heavily influenced by the practice of Art-as-Therapy, which she studied at the Master’s level at Antioch University Seattle. She has lived as an ESL instructor in Sweden and Turkey, and traveled to over 28 countries, including award-funded trips to Finland and Russia, all of which has informed her anthropological interests in goddesses, religious architecture, feminism and theology. Her family’s mixed spiritualties include Judaism, Polish Catholicism, English and Irish Episcopalianism, Celtic Wiccan, and Japanese Jodo Shinshu Buddhism. Her work has been shown in galleries in Philadelphia, New York City, Seattle and New Jersey.

Jo Gamel is the founder of Tutor of the Arts LLC, as well as an art education instructor, a private tutor, a curator, and an art gallery assistant. Now, she is writing a textbook on the chemistry and physics of oil paint with co-author Dr. Michael Mackay in order to expand the understanding of the creation of archival paintings. She also is debuting a Hard Rock album with her band, Jüpiter, along side her latest body of work, both of which explore the Power of Venus as employed by female Rock musicians.

Art Queens: Artist Navigation CE course
Sotheby Institute of Art 2022 Running a Contemporary Art Gallery
CE workshop 2021 Portrait Society of America training seminar, Scott Jones: The Business Side of Art
CE course 2018 Classical Techniques in Still Life painting
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
MA 2014- degree unfinished
Focus: Art Therapy & Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Antioch University Seattle
BFA 2009-2013
Focus: 2-D Fine Arts and Business
Moore College of Art & Design

2023 MIKA Brooklyn group show
2023 Underground Arts group show Philadelphia
2023 Hudson Gallery DE curator and exhibiting artist
2022 Underground Arts group show Philadelphia
2022 Project Parlor NYC all women’s painting exhibition
2021 Solo exhibition Philly Art Collective
2021 Solo exhibition University City Arts League
2021 Gala artist University City Arts League
2020 Gala artist University City Arts League
2020 Crane Arts and Vox Populi group exhibit
2020 University City Arts League faculty exhibit
2018 Giovinetti Studios group exhibit
2016 Twilight Gallery group exhibit
2016 Capitol Hill Art Walk solo exhibit
2013 Goldie Paley Gallery group show
2007 TCNJ Art Gallery group exhibit