Joanie Popeo

California landscape paintings and traditional illustration.

Designed over 50 postage stamps for the countries of Antigua, Barbuda, Grenada and the Grenada Grenadines. Illustrated two children’s books: Dancing on the Sand, and Sockeye’s Journey Home, for the Smithsonian Oceanic Collection. Dancing on the Sand won a Benjamin Franklin Book Award in the Book/Audio Category. Has appeared in Scientific American Magazine.

Advertising clients have included: Western Union, General Mills and Clorox, among many others. Corporate collectors include Tri Valley Bank, The Steven Kent Winery and La Rochelle Winery. Designed a label for the Steven Kent Winery’s Collector’s Circle, a limited-release wine. Worked in-house as a greeting card designer for Paramount Cards, Inc.

As a wildlife painter, exhibited in shows in Boston, Providence RI, Buffalo NY, and Los Angeles. In addition, work has appeared in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington DC. Past and present memberships have included the San Francisco Society of Illustrators, Graphic Artist’s Guild, the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland, CA. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration.

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