Resume
CHRISTINE E. JOY
224 South Bozeman Avenue
Bozeman, Montana 59715
(406) 580-0783
c.joy3@icloud.com
EDUCATION
Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpelier, Vermont 05602
DEGREE: Masters of Arts in Art Therapy GRADUATED: August, 1980
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623
DEGREE: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Printmaking GRADUATED; June 1976
COLLECTIONS
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania
The Contemporary Art Society, London, England
Sara and David Lieberman Collection, Phoenix, Arizona
ARTIST RESIDENCY AND WORKSHOP
Virtually Woven 2022, NBO on-line conference artist/ speaker on Gathering Inspiration (July 29)
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine: July 1999
Technical Assistant for Hisako Sekijima
Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming: October 31-November 11, 1994
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2013 Artist's Innovation Award for Visual Arts, Montana Arts Council
1995-1996 New forms: Regional Initiative Re-Granting Program, Co-Administered by Helena Presents and the Colorado Dance Festival with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts' Presenting and Commissioning Program, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
June 1990-June 1991: Montana Arts Council, Individual Artist Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS
Artist’s willow sculptures are a plant partnership, Billings Gazette Friday, July 14, 2023
This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World produced by the Publications Office,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, AmericanArt.si.edu 2022
Volume 50: Chronicling Fiber Art for three Decades browngrotta arts 2020
art + identity: an international view browngrotta arts 2019
Blue/Green: color / code /context browngrotta arts 2018
Still CrazyAfter All These Years… 30 years in art browngrotta arts 2017
Green from the Get Go: International Contemporary Basketmakers browngrotta arts
2016
Artboom: Celebrating Artists Mid-Century, Mid-Career browngrotta arts 2016
STIMULUS: art and its inception browngrotta arts 2011
10th Wave 111: Art Textiles and Fiber Sculpture browngrotta arts 2009
500 Baskets Susan Mowery Kieffer (Editor). Lark Books 2006
Southwest Art, December 2006
Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, Handweavers Guild of America, 2006
Crossover (videotape) Graham Eccles. Crossover-Odyssey 2001
The Art of Basketry Kari Lonning. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2000
Shuttle,Spindle & Dyepot, Handweavers Guild of America,Inc. 2001
25 for the 25th: glancing back, gazing ahead browngrotta arts 1999
Contemporary International Basketmaking Mary Butcher. Crafts Council, 1999
Contemporary American Fiber Artists Maker Profile Christine Joy
A video by Graham Eccles & Irene Edwards Odyssey 1999
THE 10TH WAVE Part 1: New Baskets and Freestanding Fiber Sculpture
browngrotta arts 1997
American Craft, June/July 1996
FIBERARTS, summer 1992 "Basket Portfolio"
The Basketmaker Quarterly, fall 1989, "Up and Coming Artists 1989”
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Vignettes: One Venue: Three Exhibitions, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT (September)
Passage:Christine Joy and Sara Mast, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana (May - July)
Missoula Art Museum Benefit Art Auction: Honoring Artists, Missoula, MT (January 6-February 2)
2022-2023
This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American
Art Museum, Washington, DC (May 13, 2022- April 2, 2023)
2022
Yellowstone Museum Art Auction, Yellowstone Museum Billings MT (September)
Ear to the Ground: Christine Joy and Sara Mast, Aunt Dofe’s Gallery, Willow Creek, MT (October)
2021-2022
Art Mobile of Montana: Sharing Contemporary Montana Art and Art Education
across the State, artmobilemontana.org
2020
Volume 50: Chronicling Fiber Art for Three Decades, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT (2020)
2019
Fiberart International 2019, organized by the Fiberart guild of Pittsburgh,Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (May 31 - August 24)
2018
Blue/Green code/color/context, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT (April 28-May 6)
2017-2019
Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America, sponsored by the National Basketry
Organization, exhibition premiere January 27, 2017 University of Missouri Museum of Art and
Archeology, Columbia, MO (January 2017-May 14, 2017)
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi (Aug. 22- Nov. 12, 2017)
Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington (February 3- May 6, 2018)
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Houston, Texas (June 2- September2, 2018)
South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota (October 19, 2018 -January 12, 2019)
Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, Delaware (February 1- April 28, 2019)
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts (May 18 - August 11, 2019)
Ruth Funk Center for the Textile Arts at Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida
(September 21- December 14, 2019
2016
Green From the Get Go: Contemporary Basketmakers, Morris Museum,
Morristown, New Jersey (March 19, 2016- June 26, 2016)
artboom: Celebrating Artists Mid- Century, Mid- Career, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT
2015
All Things Considered VIII, sponsored by the National Basketry Organization,
The Grand Hand, St. Paul, Minnesota (July 9-August 9)
2014
Artful Evening, Auction, benefitting Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington (July)
Turman Larison Contemporary, Helena, Montana
2013-2014
Christine Joy: Currents, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana (October 2- January 15, 2014)
All Things Considered VII National Basketry Organization Exhibition
juried and invitational exhibit sponsored by The National Basketry Organization, Arrowmont
School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee (August 24-October 19),
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts (November 20, 2013- February 26, 2014)
2013
Crafting a Continuum: Rethinking Contemporary Craft ASU Art Museum and Ceramics
Research Center in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Tempe, Arizona
(September - December 2013)
Christine Joy: Currents, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana
2012-2013
BAM Biennial 2012: High Fiber Diet Bellevue Arts Museum,
Bellevue, Washington (October 25-February 24)
2012
8th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2011-2012
Green from the Get Go, International Contemporary Basketmakers, Wayne Art Center,
Wayne, Pennsylvania curated by Jane Milosch and browngrotta arts (Dec.2-Jan.2012)
2011
In The Presence of Trees, Big Red Gallery, Ucross Foundation,
Clearmont, Wyoming (June 30-September 6)
The Vessel Redefined: Contemporary Basketwork, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
All Things Considered VI, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts (July 30-December 11)
Stimulus: Art and Its Inception, browngrotta arts, Wilton, Connecticut
2010-2011
Ucross Foundation Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Arts Residencies
Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center, Casper, Wyoming (October 1- January 2, 2011)
2010
Natural Causes, group show with Linda Stoudt, Phoebe Toland and Christine Joy
Turman-Larison Contemporary, Helena, Montana
SOFA Chicago 2010, Represented by browngrotta arts, Wilton, Connecticut
2009
Web and Flow, Textile Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414
Co-sponsored by the Textile Center and The National Basketry Organization
2008
Basketworks: The Costen Contemporary American Basket Collection,
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Sixth Fiber Art Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2007
All Things Considered IV, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Montana Abstract Invitational, Turman Larison Contemporary, Helena, Montana
Baskets: No Boundaries, Jane Sauer Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
(August 24- September 17)
2006
Baskets: Adaptations of Nature: Joanne Russo, Christine Joy, Fran Reed, Jane Sauer
Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico (November 24- December 18)
13th Annual Holter Museum of Art Auction & Exhibition, Helena, Montana (Aug-Sept)
Basket (R)evolution, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts
(May 13-September 10), Mobilia Gallery (October), SOFA Chicago (November 10 -12)
2005
Forms Without Function, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
12th Annual Summer Art Auction, The Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana (August)
Contemporary Art Society-Show CASe-Contemporary Art for the UK,
City Centre + Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2004
SOFA NYC, Represented by browngrotta arts, Wilton, Connecticut
11th Annual Summer Art Auction, The Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
2003
Other Baskets, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Baskets: Adaptions of Nature, Joanne Russo, Christine Joy, Fran Reed,
Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico (April 18-May 19)
2002
The Art of Contemporary Basketry, Gallerymateria, Scottsdale, Arizona (August)
9th Annual Mini-Treasures: Miniature Works of Art Exhibition and Auction,
The Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana (June 2-August 9)
15th Anniversary, browngrottaarts, Wilton, Connecticut (July-September)
2001
Crossover: The Interface Between Basketry and Sculpture, Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery,
Bury St. Edwards, Suffolk, England (13 May- 21 June)
Naturally Baskets, Connell Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia (September- October)
SOFA NYC, Represented by Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut
2000-2001
Inventions and Constructions: New Baskets,
Florida Craftsmen Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida (March 9- April 28)
Society for Arts & Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts (May 11- June 28)
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin (September 10- November 5)
East Carolina University School of Art, Greenville North Carolina (January 8- January 27, 2001)
Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky (March 15- May 6)
2000
SOFA NYC, Represented by Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut
1999-2000
Contemporary Baskets By International Makers,Crafts Council Touring Exhibition;
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England (16 April- 6 June)
The Crafts Council Gallery, London, England (17 June -15 August)
Hove Museum and Art Gallery/Brighton Museum and Art Gallery (28 August-17 October)
Cartwright Hall, Bradford (8 January- 5 March)
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead (11 March- 7 May 2000)
1999
Baskets and Beyond, Craft Alliance Center for the Visual Arts, St. Louis, Missouri
SOFA NYC, Represented by Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut
Innovation- Baskets and Beyond, The Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine (July -August)
1998
Ninth Annual Basketry Invitational, The Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan (April 25-May 30)
SOFA NYC, Represented by Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut
SOFA Chicago, Represented by Brown/Grotta Gallery
1997
Eighth Annual Basketry Invitational, The Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan (May 2- June 6)
The 10th Wave, The Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut
1996
Christine Joy: Willow Transformed, John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
Artspace, Sheboygan, Wisconsin (August 24- November 17)
Seventh Annual Basketry Invitational, The Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak Michigan
28th Annual Art Auction, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana
1995
Volume and Void, The Gallery at Takashimaya,
New York City, New York (August 9-September 5)
A Women's Place, Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls, Montana (December 8- February 4, 1996)
9th Annual Materials: Hard and Soft, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas
Sixth Annual Basketry Invitational, The Sybaris Gallery,
Royal Oak, Michigan (April 29-May 27)
Gender/Geography: New Works by Montana Women Artists, The Holter Art Museum,
Helena, Montana (March 3-April 16)
27th Annual Art Auction, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana (March 4)
The Poetic Vision, Haynes Fine Arts Gallery, Montana State University,
Bozeman, MT (February 6- March 10)
1994
8th Annual Materials: Hard and Soft- Juror's Award
Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas (September 18-October 28)
Design '94, The Prallsville Mill, Stockton, New Jersey
Roadside Crosses and Willow Baskets, Deborah Mitchell and Christine Joy,
Beall Park Art Center, Bozeman, Montana (March 3- 27)
26th Annual Art Auction, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana (March 5)
1993
Please Touch the Art, Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana (July 6-August 14)
Basketmakers Selected by John McQueen,
American Craft Museum Gift Shop, New York City, New York
Montana Choice, Montana Arts Council Fellowship Artists 1983 to 1993
Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell, Montana (July 15-October 20)
Sweet Pea Juried Art Exhibit, Second Prize, Beall Park Art Center, Bozeman, Montana (August)
25th Annual Art Auction, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana (February 27)
1992
Christine Joy, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana (September 4- November1)
24th Annual Art Auction, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana (March 7)
1991
Basketry From All Directions, Arrowmont Gallery, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Jurors Award of Recognition (October 17-December 14)
23rd Annual Art Auction, Yellowstone Art Center, Bozeman, Montana (March 9)
Featured Artist, Banaker Gallery, Walnut Creek, California
Basketry Spectrum, Rome art & Community Center, Rome, New York
Mixed Media Show, Danforth Gallery, Livingston, Montana
Focus: American Baskets, Banaker Gallery, Walnut Creek, California
1990
22nd Annual Art Auction, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana (February 24)
Art Equinox Exhibition and Auction,2nd Annual Benefit Auction
Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls, Montana (September)
Basketweave '90, The Dairy Barn, Athens, Ohio
Northwest Contemporary Fiber, Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls, Montana (June -July)
Copper and Willow: Non-Traditional Basket Forms, Artifacts Gallery, Bozeman, MT
Poetry: An Image in Mind, Beall Park Art Center, Bozeman, Montana (March)
1989
A Big Red Christmas, Big Red Gallery, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming
Sweet Pea Juried Art Exhibit, Third Prize, Beall Park Art Center, Bozeman, Montana (August)
1988
Sweet Pea Juried Art Exhibit, Beall Park Art Center, Bozeman, Montana (August)