• Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
• MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY
• BFA, Tufts University, Medford, MA
• Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
  

Joan Linder is known for her labor-intensive drawings that contain thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of tiny lines. She has exhibited at The Bronx Museum, The Queens Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Omi International Art Center, Sun Valley Art Center, Weatherspoon Art Museum and more. Her work is held in the collections of The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Davis Museum, the Burchfield Penny Art Museum and the West Collection. Linder’s public art commissions in steel, tile and glass look at the environment though a research-based lens and are part of the collection of NYC Metropolitan Transit Authority, NYC Public Art for Public Schools, and Rosewell Park Cancer Center, Buffalo. She studied at the Skowhegan holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Tufts University. Among her many awards and fellowships are residencies at MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Smack Mellon, Ucross Foundation, Art Omi, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant.

• ART 207 Drawing Concepts 1
• ART 208 Drawing Concepts 2
• ART 223 Figure Drawing
• ART 307 Thematic Drawing
• ART 323 Intermediate Figure Drawing