Joan O'Connor
CLIENTS
Past and Current
- Bedford/St.Martin’s Press
- The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
- Discovery Channel
- W. H. Freeman Publisher
- Mill Brook Press
- Prentice Hall
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Franklin Watts
- Harry Abrams
- Garland Science Publishing
- Allworth Press
- Harper Collins Publishers
- Springer-Verlag
PRINTMAKER AND BOOK DESIGNER
Lives and works in New York City
- Education
- The Cleveland Institute of Art and Pratt Institute, BFA
- Post graduate printmaking and painting at Pratt Graphic Center, Art Students League, and New School University.
- Professional Affiliations
- Artists' Fellowship Inc.
- The Book Industry Guild of New York — co-chair of Graphics Committee (and designer of several posters and catalogues) for 2006-2012 book shows
- Typophiles Club
- The National Arts Club
- SAGA (Society of America Graphic Artists)
- Professional Publishing Career:
- The McGraw-Hill Companies: Design Manager/Art Director for the College Division for approximately thirty years.
Designed at least one edition of every major college book McGraw published. Presently works as a freelance book designer / printmaker. - Professional Book Design Awards
- AIGA Awards
- Art Director Club
- Delaware Valley Award
- New York Bookbinders' Awards
- McGraw-Hill Design Awards
- PIA Award (Printing Institute of America)
- Creativity Show (sponsored by Art Direction Magazine)
- Collections
- Boston Athenaeum Library and Museum, Special Collection
- Newark Public Library, Special Collection
- Stanford University, Green Library, Special Collection
- University of Chicago, Special Collection
- University of California at San Diego, Geisel Library, Special Collection
- Lafayette College, Skillman Library, Special Collection
- Ringling School of Arts and Design, Kimbrough Library, Special Collection
- Indiana University of Purdue University at Indianapolis, Herron Art Library, Artist Book Collection
- University of Arizona, Special Collection Library
- Pfizer, Inc. Corporate Art Collection
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Exhibitions and Awards
- The National Arts Club, Exhibiting Members Show, 2019
- SAGA Print Show at Newark Public Library, 2019
- Open Printmaking Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, NYC, 2018
- "10 Printmakers", an exhibition which I also curated, at the National Arts Club, 2017
- The Old Print Shop, NYC, 2017
- Atlantic Gallery, Dialogue Exhibition 2016
- The New York Society of Etchers, 15th Anniversary Show, 2015
- The National Arts Club’s EAM Award: The Bernhardt Crystal Award for Mixed Media, 2015
- The Society of American Graphic Artist at One Hundred, 2015
- Series of Marcel Proust Etchings, The Center for Fiction, NYC, Solo Exhibition, 2012-17
- The New York Society of Etchers, Awarded: Recognition of Excellence, 2014
- Delind Gallery of the Arts, SAGA print show, Purchase Prize, Milwaukee, WI, 2013
- Portrait Show: Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT, 2013
- The New York Society of Etchers "Art of Democracy" at The Sacred Gallery, NYC, 2012
- "7 Printmakers", an exhibition which I also curated, at the Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor, NY, 2012
- SAGA print show, The Old Print Shop, NYC, 2012
- Artist Fellowship Inc. Benefit Show, New York, NYC
- The New York Society of Etchers "Art of Persuasion" at The National Arts Club,
Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill, NY
- SAGA Print Show, Lore Degenstein Gallery
- The New York Society of Etchers' International Print Exchange, Peru
- Artist Book Award from Fable Book Competition, London
"Mother Goose for Grown Ups" by Guy Wetmore Carryl, Art by Frank Feldman, Design by Joan O'Connor Exhibited at The Grolier Club and The Century Association
- International Miniature Print Show, Cadaques, Spain
- National Academy of Art, Biannual Show
- Artist's Books
- "Hobo" and "Marcel Proust's Characters"
- Book Dealer: Vamp and Tramp Booksellers
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