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Author Joan Green taught special education in the Los Angeles school system for sixteen years. In 1997, she was voted Special Education Teacher of the Year. She served as a member of an Autism Task Force where she co-authored a certification of competency for teaching children with autism. As an educational consultant, Joan is frequently called upon as a guest speaker for parent and teacher organizations across the nation.

Joan Green has been actively involved in the craft industry for 25 years, first as a retailer and teacher, then as a designer, book publisher and kit manufacturer. Now working as a full time free lance designer for needlepoint and counted cross stitch, she also operates a mail order catalog for plastic canvas needlepoint, as well as manufacturing a line of stitchery kits sold through national catalogs.

Publishers and Kit Manufacturers featuring Joan Green designs: Annie's Attic, Better Homes & Gardens Special Interest Publications, Crafts Magazine, Crafts & Things, Craftworks, Great American Crafts, House of White Birches, Janlynn Corporation, Leisure Arts, Needlecraft Shop, Plastic Canvas Crafts, Plastic Canvas Home & Holiday, Plastic Canvas World, and Uniek Inc.

Visual artist: People are most often the subject of my work; I am fascinated by bodies and the souls that inhabit them. I am not interested simply in representing them but also lending insight into their lives through the composition, rhythm, gesture and color of the work. I work in many media - watercolor, India ink, collage, oils - and focus on how figures relate to each other and charge up space with the energy of their movement. I seek ways to convey the energy of the original gesture and marks that I make in drawing into the painting or collage. As a modern dancer and choreographer, dance movement resides in my muscle memory and falls from my brush with a certain ease and satisfaction. For the past decades I have been working in watercolor and doing a lot of my painting on the South Coast of Jamaica. In fall 2008 I began to paint in oils again, after a hiatus of 39 years. This is a thrilling homecoming. Please contact me, Joan Green, at 617-492-8994 or joangreen@gmail.com

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