Joyce F

I am an artist and a writer. I have often called myself a cultural worker as a way to encompass the many directions that my career has taken while subtly acknowledging the forces that have driven it.

I grew up in a rustbelt city-in-decline located on a Great Lake, (Erie, Pennsylvania), that I was eager to leave. In 1978 I moved to another Great Lake City (Chicago, Illinois) and have been here since, with a brief recent interlude in Santa Barbara, California.

Currently I am working as a painter in the new studio that I built after leaving full time employment as Executive Director of Architreasures. I’m joining the Intergenerational LGBTQ+ Dialogue Project because after working on community art projects for over 20 years, I’m excited to be a participant instead of an administrator/facilitator and I’m thrilled to be working on a project that is about my community.