Joan Green is an artist working in oil and mixed-media who relocated from Cambridge to Western Mass in 2021. She currently lives and makes art in the home she shares with her artist husband Bobby Brown in Shutesbury Mass. She exhibits her work in various venues, including (in the past year) at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton MA, PLAYMAKERS, Leverett Crafts and Arts, Leverett MA, Vernon Street Anniversary Exhibit, Nave Gallery, Somerville MA, Resilience exhibit of New Hampshire Art Association, Portsmouth, NH, THRIVE beyond surviving, exhibit at Tabor Gallery, Holyoke Community College, MA. In 2024, she participated in the 50th Anniversary of Vernon Street Studios Open Studio, Shutesbury Open Studios (of which she was the organizing force, receiving a LCC grant) and West Medford Open Studios. In 2025, 24 and 22, Joan was honored to be a Residency Artist at Bearnstow Dance Camp, Mt. Vernon ME. She has taught workshops with Bobby Brown at the Cares Center, Holyoke MA, for the Shutesbury Police Department and at the Berkshire Arts and Tech Charter School, Adams MA. Her primary artistic career was as a dancer, teacher, choreographer and arts administrator. She co-directed two dance companies: Back Porch Dance Company and Back Pocket Dancers over a period of 28 years. She co-founded and directed the Cambridge Performance Project, a non-profit that served the city's children for 35 years. As a dance teacher she has taught dance to children, adults and elders in a variety of settings for forty years. She currently dances with a small, improvisational ensemble in Amherst, MA, teaches a dance class on Zoom and holds twice-yearly reunion classes with her Boston area improvisation students.
