Wolbier has three published limited edition artists’ books: Arachne/Amaranth (partially funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts); 23 Eggs (partially funded by a grant from Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD); and Passages: Understood and Agreed.  The collection of her published books is in the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC ("Books As Art" series 1987 & 1989). Arachne/Amaranth is also included in The Century of Artists’ Books, Johanna Drucker, Granary Books, 1995, pp. 136-37, photo page 136. Her works in various medium have recognition and have been displayed nationally and internationally.

Wolbier credits some of her mentors with whom she studied: Robert Liberace for classical drawing techniques; Gwendolyn C. Bragg & Carolyn Grossé Gawarecki for watercolor medium. She’s also studied in workshops with Stephen Quiller, Cheng-Khee Chee, Carl Schmalz and Christopher Groves (plein air oil painting). She offers workshops and group or individual private lessons for both children and addults. You can contact her for more information or for pricing on any of the artwork currently on display to Joan Wolbier.

Artist’s Statement:

Creating art has always been a spiritual experience for me. I create to satisfy my own curiosity about the magic in our lives. That magic appears on a sheet of paper when I draw a face, a moose, a flower. Visions of mountains, trees, and oceans appear when I paint shapes and colors. My work is representational and explores exterior and interior landscapes and the natural world.

Over the years, I have experimented with many media: printmaking, sculpture, bookmaking, watercolor, oils, acrylics, and various drawing media. In our slick, digital, computer generated world, I want to see the impression made by the human hand. I like the wrinkles in handmade papers, the torn or deckle edge, and the imperfect flow of the paint on the surface. I like the intimacy we experience when we page through a book instead of looking at a computer screen