Joanne McFarland

JoAnne McFarland is an artist, poet, and curator and the Artistic Director of Artpoetica Project Space in Gowanus, Brooklyn, which exhibits experimental and hybrid works that focus on the intersection of language and visual representation. JoAnne is the former Exhibitions Director of A.I.R. Gallery which was founded in 1972 as the first gallery in the United States specifically for women artists. She has artwork in the permanent collections of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian, the Library of...See more

JoAnne McFarland is an artist, poet, and curator and the Artistic Director of Artpoetica Project Space in Gowanus, Brooklyn, which exhibits experimental and hybrid works that focus on the intersection of language and visual representation. JoAnne is the former Exhibitions Director of A.I.R. Gallery which was founded in 1972 as the first gallery in the United States specifically for women artists. She has artwork in the permanent collections of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the Department of State, among many others. JoAnne's poetry collections include: Pullman , Tracks of My Tears , Identifying the Body , 13 Ways of Looking at a Black Girl , and Acid Rain . JoAnne has had fellowships at the Painting Center, the Bard Graduate Center Library, KALA Art Institute, the National Arts Club, the Van Alen Institute, and Cave Canem. Her recent exhibitions include Affiliation at the National Arts Club, Queen For a Day at the Bard Graduate Center Library, Rights & Wrongs at the Carroll Mansion in Baltimore, MD, and Best & Brightest and The Indivisible Spectrum, both at the Painting Center in NYC. JoAnne's artwork is represented by Accola Griefen Fine Art. See less