Background
Danziger, Joan was born on June 17, 1934 in New York City. Daughter of Emanuel and Martha (Kaplan) Schwartz.
Danziger, Joan was born on June 17, 1934 in New York City. Daughter of Emanuel and Martha (Kaplan) Schwartz.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1954. Bachelor of Fine Arts (honorary), Academy Fine Art, Rome, 1958. One woman exhibitions include:Corcoran Gallery, Washington, 1975, California Museum Science and Industry, Los Angeles, 1977, Muckenthal Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 1977, State University of New York-Albany, 1978, Jacksonville Museum Art and Science (Florida), 1979, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, 1979, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York City, 1980, Joy Horwich Gallery, Chicago, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1982, Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, Louisiana World Exposition, New Orleans, 1984, TextileMus., Washington, 1985, National Museum Women in Arts, 1987, San Antonio Art Center, 1987.
Visiting artist, lecturer Smithsonian Institution, 1980-1982.
Artist-in-residence American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations Labor Studies Center, 1975. Visual arts panelistD.C. Commission Arts and Humanities, 1974-1979, 84-85.
Sculpture panelist New Jersey State Council Arts, 1982. Commissioned by National Museum American Art, State Maryland George Taylor Multi-Svc.
Center Discovery Commander, Jacksonville Museum Arts and Sciences, Columbia Hospital, Washington, Frostburg State College (Maryland.), George Meany Labor Studies Center, New Orleans Museum Art, District of Columbia Convention.Ctr., National Museum Women in Arts, New Jersey State Museum, State Maryland National Endowment Arts grantee, 1975, grantee International des Arts, Paris, 1986.
Her work has been shown at the Morris Museum, Rutgers University, and the New Jersey State Museum. Her work is in: the New Orleans Museum of Artist The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Susquehanna Art Museum.
She lives in Washington, District of Columbia
2008 "Joan Danziger: Mythic Landscapes: Recent Sculptures" Osuna Art, Bethesda, Maryland
2013 Joan Danziger, Inside the Underworld: Beetle Magic November 3 through December 16, 2013
Elaine A. King (July–August 2009).
"The Emblematic World of Joan Danziger". Sculpture Magazine.
Member Washington Sculptors Group, Sculpture Guild (New York ). Society of Art of the Imagination (England).
Married Martin Danziger, June 17, 1958.