iona rozeal brown wins Joyce Award

iona Rozeal Brown has been named an 2009 Joyce Foundation Award winner. The Joyce Foundation, based in Chicago and serving the cities of Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit, supports the artistic endeavors of artists of color. Brown (in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland) will receive a $50,000 grant to create a new series of work commissioned by the MOCA and to participate in an on-site artist residency program working with advanced high school arts students from the Cleveland area. The students will work alongside the artist to develop a series of painted wooden screens, while other students film a documentary of Brown to be shown during her 2010 exhibition at the MOCA along with all of her work from the new series.

Check out the slideshow of pictures from the awards ceremony in Chicago (G+R Associate Director Jessica Sain was there!) and short video of iona herself on the Joyce Foundation site.