Art lets me explore and express the things I love: nature, music, literature, history, languages and spirituality. I like to combine ideas and story with beautiful forms, in the hopes that my work can be appreciated on an intellectual level as well as a sensual one. My work is all about color and intense detail; whether I am working in egg tempera, oil, acrylic or watercolor. Some of my work includes calligraphy, such as my Ketubot. Further information can be found on Judith Joseph at: judithjosephstudio.com Email: judithstudio@yahoo.com Anniversary Ketubah Bi-Coastal Ketubah Ketubah for 25th Anniversary Ketubah (Homage to Chagall) Ketubah (Road of Life) Genocide Iridescent Peacock In the Forest Ketubah Ketubah Ketubah Ketubah Ketubah In 1998, Ms. Joseph was awarded an Artist's Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council. Her art is pictured and discussed in Wisconsin Artists: A Celebration of Jewish Presence (Carter and Reusch, Marquette University, 1994) and Harvest Of Freedom, (Yochim, Am. References, 1989). As an educator, Ms. Joseph is listed on the Illinois Arts Council's Arts-In-Education roster, a program that sponsors artist residencies. She conducts residencies in egg-tempera painting and calligraphy. Following a 1995 residency at Northside Catholic Academy, Ms. Joseph joined the faculty as a part-time art instructor. In that capacity, she designed and wrote the middle school art curriculum. In 1999, she and her fellow NCA teachers were awarded the Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Award for Excellence. Other educational activities include her work as a facilitator for Art Encounter, a not-for-profit group that brings people and art together through gallery and museum tours and visits to private collections. She has taught at the Evanston Art Center and the Center For Gifted program of National Louis University. She also gives slide lectures on illuminated manuscripts and Ketubot.. Ms. Joseph received a B.S. in art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1978. She studied botanical illustration at the Chicago Botanic Garden. She is a member of the Chicago Artists' Coalition and the National Women's Caucus for Art. She is a member of the state-run Illinois Artisans program. On a personal level, she feels fortunate to work with couples to create personal works that bring so much joy to their wedding celebration. Ketubot become visual family archives and are cherished by families for generations. The storytelling style she developed for Ketubot carries over to her paintings, which are richly detailed visual tapestries. Recently, she has been painting on glass vessels, embellishing them with exquisitely detailed botanical imagery and Biblical and poetic quotations in English and/or Hebrew. Selected Exhibitions: 2000 Beverly Art Center, Women's Caucus For Art Exhibit, Chicago, IL 2000 Temple Sinai, Chicago, IL 1997 Jewish Museum of Miami, Miami Beach, FL 1996 Arts-In-Celebration, Carbondale, IL 1995 Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL l994 Haggerty Museum, Marquette University' Milwaukee, WI