| Jo-Anne
Green, Co-Director of New Radio and Performing
Arts, Inc. since 2002, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. After
graduating from the University of the
Witwatersrand with a BFA Honors in Printmaking and Art History, she
emigrated to the United States in 1983. While studying for her MFA at
UMASS Dartmouth, she volunteered
for a Fund for a
Free South Africa (FreeSA) from 1985 to 1992 where she co-founded
Cultural Resistance to educate the American public about apartheid
through the art and culture of South Africa. Green was Fundraiser
for Do While Studio: Art Technology
(1992-96), Development Coordinator for the New
England School of Art & Design (1994-95), and Visiting Faculty
at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts
(1995). She was instrumental in starting the artist-in-residence program
at the University of New Mexico's Albuquerque
High Performance Computing Center (1999) which led to the founding
of the Art Technology Center
(ATC); Green was Program Coordinator for both the ATC and the
Arts of the Americas Institute
until June 2001. Upon returning to Boston, she completed her MS in Art
Administration at Lesley University.
She has exhibited her paintings, one-of-a-kind artist's books, and installations
in South Africa, Boston and New York. |