Joyce Livingston

Joy Livingston

Floral City

Joslyn Biennial 1983

M.F.A. University of Nebraska 1986

Art Teacher, Inverness Middle School 1986-2018

Annual Art Teacher Exhibitions, Old Courthouse Museum, Inverness, 2000-2018

Solo shows at the Florida Artists Gallery, Floral City, 2010-2017

Solo Show “Raven Series” Green Valley Grill 2018

“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” group exhibit, Old Courthouse Museum, Inverness, May 26th - June 18th, 2021

MCA’s 3rd Annual Juried Art Exhibit and Competition, “Best of the Best” exhibition, Brick City Center for the Arts, Sept. 3rd - 25th, 2021

Best of Show, Artist Nature Coast Exhibit, Art Center of Citrus County, Sept. 15th - Nov. 3rd, 2021

“Blackbird Bound: Visual Verses”, group exhibition, artOasis, College of Central Florida, October- November, 2021

Solo Exhibition, Art Center ofCitrus County, November - February, 2022

“ Of Poems and Pieces, Haiku and Art”, group exhibition, artOasis, Old Courthouse Heritage Museum, Inverness, Florida, April - May, 2022

Best of Show, “Artist Nature Coast Exhibit”, Art Center of Citrus County, May - June, 2022

The Raven Series has one major influence, Romanticism. The ideals embrace individuality and subjectivity, to counteract the excessive insistence on logical thought. It emphasizes the individual’s connection to Nature. The French poet Charles Baudelaire described it: “Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject matter nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling.

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