Joan Danziger

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Joan Danziger
Born1934 (1934)
NationalityAmerican
Education
Known forSculpture
Website joandanziger.com

Joan Danziger (born 1934) [1] is an American sculptor. Her work is largely of large sculptures of beetles and hybrid human-animals.

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Early life and education

Danziger grew up in Queens, New York City. [2] She graduated from Cornell University with a BFA, and studied at the Art Students League of New York, and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in Rome. [3]

Career

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 Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [4] the National Museum of Women in the Arts Reading Public Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania, Childrens Museum of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, and Susquehanna Art Museum. [3] She is known for her large sculptures of beetles [5] [6] and hybrid human-animal forms. [7]

Her image is included in the 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson. [8]

Personal life

She resides and works in Washington, D.C. [6]

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References

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