Joan Green is an artist working in oil and mixed-media artist who moved from Cambridge 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 Vernon Street Anniversary Exhibit, Nave Gallery, Somerville MA, Resilience exhibit of New Hampshire Art Association, Portsmouth, NH, THRIVE beyond surviving, exhibit at Tabor Gallery, Holyoke Community College, MA. In 2024, she participated in the 50th Anniversary of Vernon Street Studios Open Studio, Shutesbury Open Studios (of which she was the organizing force, receiving a LCC grant) and West Medford Open Studios.in 2024 and 2022, Joan was honored to be a Residency Artist at Bearnstow Dance Camp, Mt. Vernon ME. 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. Joan will be sharing an exhibit, PLAYMAKERS, with Bobby Brown and Whitney Robbins in the Gallery at Leverett Crafts and Arts Center for the month of April, 2025. 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. She currently dances with a small, improvisational ensemble in Amherst, MA, teaches a dance class on Zoom and holds occasional reunion classes with her Boston area students.
