Joan Myers

Born in Iowa, in 1944, Joan Myers has spent a lifetime learning and exploring. After receiving a M.A. in musicology in 1967 from Stanford University, she took up photography in the mid-1970s. Today she utilizes digital techniques, as well as the platinum palladium process. She maintains her studio near Santa Fe, New Mexico. In addition to numerous solo and group exhibitions, her work is included in collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, Center for Creative Photography, George Eastman House, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her books include The Jungle at the Door (2012); Pie Town Woman (2001); Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California (1999); Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and WWII (1996); and Santiago: Saint of Two Worlds (1991). In 2002, the National Science Foundation awarded Joan Myers an Antarctic Artists and Writer’s Grant to photograph at McMurdo Station, surrounding field stations, historic huts, and the South Pole during the 2002-2003 austral summer. A four-year traveling SITES show entitled Wondrous Cold: an Antarctic Journey opened at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC in May 2006, accompanied by a book published by Smithsonian Books. Her most recent work is of volcanic and geothermal sites around the world.