Joan Giroux is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, compassionate activist, and death acceptance advocate whose work frequently provides context for community and personal reflections on loss, absence, and bereavement through active play and participation. Joan has performed and exhibited her work in the US and abroad. Recent projects and venues include: eco monopolies: a Commons Artist Project, MCA Chicago (2018); Take Care, Weinberg/Newton Gallery (2017); and Ill at Ease: Dis-ease in Art, University of Buffalo (2017).
In 2000, Joan founded Compassionate Action Enterprises with Lisa Marie Kaftori to create art and interaction geared toward ecofeminism, environmental ethics, social, political, and cultural activism. Their filmic verse from there to here, from then to now extends CAE’s ongoing jasmine series into physical meanderings and cinematic wanderings and was presented in S.T.E.P., Saunter Trek Escort Parade at Flux Factory and Queens Museum, NY (2018).
Joan is a Professor in Columbia College Chicago’s Art and Art History Department, where she teaches courses in studio art, art activism, and professional practices. She earned an M.F.A at Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts low-residency interdisciplinary program, and a B.F.A from Parsons School of Design, and also studied Multi-Media | Experimental Sculpture at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Professor Shinkichi Tajiri.
