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TSU Library Art Gallery
Presents Art
by
Joan Shannon
ARTIST STATEMENT
My art form is
EXPRESSIONISM and I started painting three years ago after finding a
teacher Robert Lafayette Mitchell who painted energy and motion. My
goal is to create joy, energy and healthy emotions in my art form. I
have focused on capturing the joy of creating and playing music and
dance. Art and dance are universal languages all over the world
among man and other species. My art is bold, bright and high energy.
I am using the proceeds from the sale of my art to address
children’s education and health issues world wide. Our family has
been for three generations teachers, preachers and doctors/healers.
At the age of 3 my parents told me that GOD will bring you anything.
So I began to pray nightly for red shoes, expecting them to be
delivered during the night to my bedside and every morning when I
woke up, I would look to see if GOD had brought me the red shoes
during the night. I include a pair of red shoes in the art if
possible and I collect red shoes to remind me to connect spiritually
with the source of all of my good and inspiration.
My first painting was of my father’s band. My father’s mother was a
widow in Mississippi in the 1930s and someone White taught my father
to play 2-3 musical instruments and he taught himself the rest. He
wanted to attend college but there was no money. He went to
Mississippi Institute College and told them that he had no money but
would teach music and start a band for the college in exchange for
tuition. They allowed him to pay for his college in that manner. To
earn pocket money, he played with his quartet on the weekends for
weddings, bar mitzvahs and dances; his instrument was the trumpet.
My father later after several degrees completed his doctorate in
educational administration and taught here at TSU for 20+ years.
Music was always important in our household and I had 12 years of
piano training and oboe. Both of my parents were the first in their
families to attend college and then graduate school.
Currently, I am building a super web site for natural healing
remedies called the Health Tip Connection, the health/healing tips
are based on the latest medical research. I am a psychiatric nurse
full time and I teach nursing students part-time. Another current
project is a book I have written on Face Lift by Exercise, look 10
years younger in 10 weeks. I am a graduate of many schools
[Vanderbilt, TSU (Biology and Nursing), Tulane, University of
Alabama and I attended Harvard and Tufts].
I am the mother of a gifted scientist, dancer, play writer and
artist who has her own company , EthnoExpresso. EthnoExpresso is
interactive dance refreshment during a larger conference, she get
1,000 people to get up out of their seats to do African Dance.
Joan Shannon, RN, BSN. MS, MPH, (Ph.D)
e-mail
joanshannon2@yahoo.com
Caretta & Martin Luther King |
Swinging with Mom |
Wedding |
On Stage |
Dancing in the Rain |
Female Guitar Player |
Dancing in the Groove |
Singing Love Songs |
Playing Love Songs |
And on that note..Dance |
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