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Artist Joyce Wellman, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y, has been living and working in the District since 1981. She received a Master's degree in Education from the University of Massachusetts in 1 977 and after receiving a Ford Foundation Fellowship to study painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art, she received her MFA from the institute's Mt. Royal School of Art in 1996.
In addition to painting, WeIlman is an accomplished printmaker, having studied the craft with printmakers such as Valerie Maynard, Khrisna Reddy and Bob Blackburn. In 2003 she was invited to Kenya to teach a master printmaking class at the Kuona Trust Studios in Nairobi.
Currently, Wellman's work can be viewed in the show "Rules of Engagement" at the U.S. District Court House in Greenbelt, Md. through Wed., July 29.
WI: How would you describe your art?
JW: I would call it abstract geometry, because...