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Joe Anna Arnett
Joe Anna Arnett graduated from the University of Texas, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She moved to New York and became a senior art director for Young & Rubicam Advertising. In New York, she continued her studies in fine arts at the Art Student's League. In 1984, Arnett moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and began exhibiting her paintings throughout the United States and abroad.
In 1997, she became a Master Artist of the Artists of America Show at the Colorado History Museum. She has also exhibited at the Albuquerque Museum of Fine Arts, the Gilcrease Museum, the Tucson Museum of Fine Arts, the National Cowgirl Museum, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, the Cincinnati Museum Center, and Art Asia in Hong Kong. She is a thirteen year veteran of the prestigious Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
Arnett has written articles for The Artist's Magazine, American Arts Quarterly, ART Ideas, Australian Artists Magazine, and has been featured in The International Herald Tribune, Southwest Art, and Western Art Digest. She was published in Painting with Passion, The Best of Flower Painting, and The Best of Flower Painting II for North Light books.
She authored Painting Sumptuous Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers in Oil, first published in 1998. A second edition has since been published, as well as a Chinese language edition in 1999. Her first teaching DVD Still Life will debut in 2008.
A passionate traveler, Joe Anna and her husband, James Asher, enjoy painting wherever they go. Together, they have painted in the United States, Canada, Mexico, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Italy, Holland, Chile, Guatemala and many other exciting destinations around the world. Teaching both still life and landscape, en plein air, in many of these locations remains one of her greatest joys throughout her long career.
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