JOYCE HARTMANN 

STATEMENT and RESUME 

RE:JOYCE!  “Hello! I am a representational painter working primarily in watercolors, but I also enjoy acrylics, gouache, ink, oils, photography, and scratchboard, depending on the subject matter. I paint a variety of mostly pleasant subjects and places that evoke happy memories to viewers: like some of the letters from my name, ‘Joy Art’. Some of my favorite subjects are wildlife, landscapes, and portraits of people or pets.

 “Drawings help me to really see and understand things. Photography, too, assists me to be accurate in portraying objects, wildlife, and habitat. And being outdoors and actually experiencing the places I paint is the best; if I have to hike or kayak to find what I need, then getting the reference is half the fun!

 “Continuous inspiration for landscapes comes from beautiful natural surroundings and outdoor experiences. I appreciate earth’s amazing natural wonders and hope that viewers will also appreciate these increasingly limited natural resources.”

 THE GOOD LIFE: Joyce Hartmann retired to Arkansas with her biologist husband Bob, where they now live with two dogs at “Rock’n’Pine Glades”, 45 acres of Ozark beauty near Greer’s Ferry Lake and the Buffalo National River. Surrounded by forests, lakes, and streams, many of Joyce’s favorite painting subjects are nearby, including deer, raccoons, wild turkey, foxes, bear, coyotes, flying squirrels, many species of birds, and a continual succession of wild flowers and garden vegetables. She feels so lucky to be able to live here! 

BACK IN THE DAY: Joyce says, “Art has always been important to me. Early childhood memories in St. Louis suburbs include drawing Al Capp cartoons in the margins of my Lutheran grade school textbooks, learning to draw my first elephant from Aunt Hulda, winning a city-wide poster contest in eighth grade, and painting in oils during high school and college.

 “Although employed as a physical educator (I majored in fun) and mother of three in Kansas, I continued to paint, adding acrylics and watercolors to my repertoire, painting glorious golden wheat fields and wonderfully cloud-filled spacious skyscapes. For several years I painted full time and sold my work at art fairs; my public especially liked my “Barnboard Art”, acrylic paintings of rural scenes on beautifully weathered barnwood. Bob helped me tear down an endless supply of old sheds and barns and fencing for art materials. Painting on barnwood, stones, switch plates, and bones, I didn’t have to frame anything; all I did was paint and sell. That was great!

 “I also did wildlife illustrations for various magazines, including Kansas Fish and Game, and wrote and illustrated freelance articles and columns, such as a weekly humor column called “Re:Joyce” published by the Pratt Tribune, and scuba diving features published in Skin Diver and Scuba Scoop. I donated large watercolors to Ducks Unlimited for their fundraisers.

 “We moved to Arkansas in 1998, where I decided to paint what I like, not just what sells. The Ozark and Boston Mountains opened up a whole new world to me, so different from the brown and gold flatlands of Kansas. How could anyone paint the endless parade of vividly colored wildflowers? And how could an artist ever show the layers upon layers of beautiful leaves and trees, mountains and lakes? 

“My color palette brightened immensely, and I honed new skills by painting daily, taking workshops, and learning from artist friends in Fairfield Bay. After much practice and study, I now feel at home painting fine art in Arkansas. A nice thing happened along the way: people still enjoy my work and buy it for their homes and businesses. I, too, have mellowed, making and exhibiting affordable art and accepting commissions from people who have visions of their own they want to see in a painting.

 “It’s truly a good life here in Arkansas, and I look forward to painting at Rock’n’Pine Studio as long as I can.” 

BEEN THERE, DID THAT: Joyce brings a wealth of experience that influences her paintings. Some of her former careers include being a teacher of physical education, art, and ballroom, folk, and modern dance; university and college consortium director, grant-writer, project director for gerontology, sex equity, arts, family literacy, and vocational education; illustrator, free-lance writer, magazine illustrator, newspaper editor, professional photographer; Avon lady; and soda jerk at Yellowstone Park. Her proudest achievements are three wonderful daughters and two amazing grandchildren, all grown and pursuing creative careers of their own. Joyce’s hobbies have included tennis, swimming, piano, canoeing, kayaking, wilderness and RV camping, clogging, biking, flying small planes, scuba spearfishing and snorkeling. She holds state, regional, and national championships in both scuba spearfishing and table tennis. Woo-hoo! 

SCHOOLIN’: She studied art throughout her high school and college years, and has an A. B. Degree from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.S. Degree from Pittsburg State University in Kansas in physical education and recreation with a minor in art. Traveling in the U. S., Europe, Canada, and Mexico, she visited art museums and learned to appreciate other cultures. She has studied with many nationally known watercolorists and oil painters. 

AMONG LIFE’S DEBRIS: Joyce has won a variety of awards. Did you ever watch the TV show “Gunsmoke”? Joyce is an Honorary “Miss Kitty”, with a certificate presented to her in 1996 by the Mayor of Dodge City, Kansas. In 2005 she received Artist-of-the-Year Award from the North Central Arkansas Foundation for the Arts and Education. Also in 2005 she received the You-Make-a-Difference Award from the North Central Arkansas Artist League. Various past art awards were received in Kansas juried shows, including purchase awards by Southwestern Bell Corporation in a statewide contest; best art at Walnut Valley KS Arts & Crafts Fair/Bluegrass Festival, and the Indian Peace Treaty Pageant in Medicine Lodge, KS; best-of-show art at Kansas Community Art Guild, Wichita KS; purchase award by Alva Indian Museum, Alva, OK; best-of-show and blue-ribbon-winners at county and state fairs; and more. Paintings are in permanent art collections of Ozark Health Center (Clinton AR), Ozark Heritage Arts Center (Leslie AR), Alva Indian Museum (Alva, OK), Pratt Community College, and others. Her art is found in homes of many public, private, political, educational and corporate patrons world-wide.                                                                                                                     

PAST GRANT AWARDS FOR ART EXHIBITS

Joyce produced and participated in a traveling group exhibit “Side by Side”, as part of a Kansas vocational education grant, at Western Kansas Community Colleges: Pratt, Dodge City, Garden City, Colby, Seward County, Hutchinson, Cloud County, and Kansas State University, 1981 

She also demonstrated watercolor techniques to high schools, nursing homes, and other public institutions in seven Kansas counties as part of a Kansas Arts Commission grant, 1980

OTHER ART EXPERIENCE 

Recent free lance articles, illustrations and photographs have appeared in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette (Little Rock); Ozark Mountaineer; Life in the Ozarks; Van Buren County Democrat, and Fairfield Bay News.

Taught art at Fairfield High School, Langdon KS

Illustrated for Kansas Fish and Game Magazine

Wrote and illustrated a weekly humor column “Re:Joyce” in the Pratt Tribune, a daily newspaper

Wrote and illustrated a monthly outdoor column “Re:Joyce Afield” in Heartland, an outdoor magazine

 ART MEMBERSHIPS 

North Central Arkansas Artist League (Past President, currently Secretary and Exhibit Chair for the Ozark Medical Center in Clinton) at Fairfield Bay, AR

North Central Arkansas Foundation for the Arts and Education

Mid Southern Watercolorists, based in Little Rock

Arkansas Arts Council, Registry: http://www.arkansasarts.com/programs/registry/search.asp?name=Hartmann&city=&code=

Past member and former President of art organizations in Pratt and Pittsburg, KS

Past member of Kansas Art Guild, Wichita KS 

SOLO EXHIBITS 

Back in the Day Cafe, Bill’s on Highway 330 and Beaver Rd., Fairfield Bay (current, continual, changing)

Senior Center, Clinton, AR (current, continual, changing)

Home studio: Rock’n’Pine Studio, Clinton, AR (current, continual, changing, call 501-745-6615) 

GALLERY REPRESENTATION AND CURRENT GROUP EXHIBITS 

Artisans Gallery, Fairfield Bay, AR (current, continual, changing)

Fresh Air Gallery, Clinton AR; 2006 (October, 2006 photography exhibit)

North Central Arkansas Gallery, Indian Hills Country Club, Fairfield Bay, AR (continual, changing, twice yearly)

Fairfield Bay City Buildings, Fairfield Bay, AR (current, continual, changing)

Fairfield Bay Senior Center, Fairfield Bay, AR (current, continual, changing)

Ozark Medical Center, (current, continual, changing) 

PAST SOLO AND DUAL EXHIBITS

Indian Rock Village, Fairfield Bay, AR, 2005

Community Gallery, Clinton, AR, 2004

Fairfield Bay Library, Fairfield Bay, AR, 2002, 2004

Ozark Heritage Arts Center and Museum, Leslie, AR, 2001

Halstead Museum, Halstead, KS, 1978

Shepler’s Western Store, Wichita, KS, 1977