Biography

Joanna Angell is a multidisciplinary studio artist living and working in Savannah, Georgia. Her ceramics, paintings, and prints are exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions and belong to collections that include The President’s Collection of the University of Georgia, the South Carolina Palmetto Hands Collection, and the John F. Kennedy Fine Arts Department Collection at Savannah State University.

She earned a BA in English from Drew University in Madison, NJ and an MFA from the University of Georgia where she studied with Tamarind printmaker Charles Morgan and ceramicist Ron Meyers. She has been awarded numerous scholarships to study at the Penland School of Craft in North Carolina.

Her first teacher was her artist-mother Jean Eliot Surber Diehl.

Joanna's father, Bronislaw M. Bak, was a Polish artist who immigrated to Chicago after WWII. Her parents' lithographs, paintings and teachings continue to influence her research and practice, as does the work of her daughter, artist Sarina Angell.

Joanna is currently an Associate Professor of Art at the University of South Carolina Beaufort and Director of the USCB Sea Islands Center Gallery in Beaufort, South Carolina.