Joan Green is a painter and mixed-media artist who moved from Cambridge MA to Western Mass in 2021. She currently lives and makes art in the home she shares with her artist husband Bobby Brown in Shutesbury Mass. She exhibits her work in various venues, including (in the past year) at the National Prize Show of the Cambridge Art Association, where her piece Or So It Seems won a Juror's Choice Award. She currently has a mixed-media work on display in the exhibit HOME at LexArts, Lexington MA. Since moving to Shutesbury, she has taught workshops with Bobby Brown sponsored by the Shutesbury Police Department and in Adams MA at the Berkshire Arts and Tech Charter School. She has twice held Open Studios at her home and is currently organizing an Open Studio event for the town to be held in Spring 2024. She has studied Multi-plate Printmaking and Pronto Plate Lithography at ZeaMays Printmaking Studio, Northampton MA. She also organized a cohort of local artists that meets monthly to discuss their work and share information. Her primary artistic career was as a dancer, teacher, choreographer and arts administrator. She co-directed two dance companies: Back Porch Dance Company and Back Pocket Dancers over a period of 28 years. She co-founded and directed the Cambridge Performance Project, a non-profit that served the city's children for 35 years. As a dance teacher she has taught dance to children, adults and elders in a variety of settings for forty years.
