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About the Artist Joyce A. Yarbrough has been an artist all her life, working at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City after graduating from MU, and while studying at the Kansas City Art Institute. She has worked as a freelance artist, and as an illustrator for several educational publishers, in addition to her work as an art director, marketing coordinator, and retail shop owner. People are one of her favorite subjects, which she portrays in many different media. She can draw with either her right or left hand, and do pastels with proficiency, but she is most widely known for her silhouettes, which she cuts freehand with no preliminary drawing. Her work is a character study, giving the viewer an idea of each subject's personality. Although she prefers to cut silhouettes from life, she can do silhouettes from photos. For over twenty years, she has been known as The Silhouette Lady from St. Louis, cutting silhouettes at various fine art, craft, and historical events, and at special events for Famous-Barr, Anheuser-Busch, The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis History Museum, and Silver Dollar City, and has helped preserve the "lost art" of cutting silhouettes. Joyce's most recent awards include "Best of Show" for her pastel sunset, "Stormy Sky" in the Gateway Pastel Artists' Exhibition at Creative Art Gallery in St. Louis, and an "Award of Merit" for her silhouette of "Captain Clark" in the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Commemorative Exhibition at the Foundry Art Centre in St Charles. A member of Best of Missouri Hands, St Louis Artist Guild, Gateway Pastel Artists, Columbia Art League, Guild of American Papercutters, and Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Joyce has a studio at The Foundry Art Centre, 520 N. Main in St. Charles. Joyce A. Yarbrough www.foundryartists.com
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