JOan Stuart Ross
Joan Stuart Ross, born in Boston, has worked, taught Art, volunteered, and exhibited her artwork in the Northwest for several decades.
Joan graduated from Boston Latin School, Connecticut College, studied Printmaking with Peterdi and Color Theory with Albers at Yale, and earned an MA & MFA from the University of Iowa, where she studied with Lasansky. Joan is represented by Ryan James Fine Arts, RiverSea, and WaterWorks Galleries. Joan is a member of the Ballard High School Art Committee and has served on the Seattle Arts Commission, the Bumbershoot Festival Commission, the Civita Institute, and was a founding Board Member of Seattle Print Arts. She founded the Intaglio Print Workshop in 1970, was the first Monotype teacher in Seattle, 1974, and taught Printmaking at North Seattle College. Joan won the Betty Bowen Award, a Rome Fellowship, and a Fulbright to Vietnam. She is a partner of BallardWorks, an affordable artists’ studio building. She maintains her studios there and in Nahcotta, Washington.