Joyce Owens

Joyce Owens' art was comissioned by the historic Blackstone Hotel in downtown Chicago, the Sofitel Hotel in Hyde Park, Chicago, by the Mt. Sinai Hospital Clinic and Chicago State University. She has exhibted on four continents including NATO in Brussels, Belgium; The African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and U.S. embassies in Stockholm, Sweden and Monrovia, Liberia. Her work was also shown in Turin, Italy and many galleries, museums and art centers in the U.S.A. Owens, who has been an artist since she was a girl, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. on the east coast of the United States of America. The third of three children produced by Eloise Owens, a local celebrity/opera singer, and a community and civic servant following in the footsteps of her mother, Owens' grandmother, Florence Collier Franklin, who raised a million dollars in war bonds during WWII. All of her six siblings, and her mother, Elizabeth migrated from Georgia in the late 1920's. My grandmother's husband, college educated and an employee of the US Postal Service, died young when my mother was eight. I never knew my great grandfather or my grandfather and my father and mother split when I was a tiny girl. I lost half of my history. I have tried all my life to grasp m...

Howard University, BFA
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