September 2-30, 2010 Conducted collage workshops as part of HIGH K. Joy Ballard Peters Douglasville, Georgia MUSEUM’s Romare Bearden Teacher Course, Visual Artist & Retired Professor of Art January 2005; Conducted Target’s “Family Fun THE GREAT FRAME UP Day” Activities at HIGH MUSEUM in February,

December 7-21, 2005 Solo exhibition 2005. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., attended Douglasville, Georgia public schools. Studied at Howard University and PUBLIC COMMISSION: received Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Design in CARLOS MUSEUM, June 1969, with minors in Art History and “Wrapped in Kente” Exhibition -FULTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Graphics. Received Ceramic and Watercolor One of Five Atlanta-based artists represented. Ponce De Leon Branch, Children’s Section Painting Award;, Howard University Annual February 23- June 16, 2002, Atlanta, Georgia. Appliqués: “Between The Pages of Books are Fun, Student Exhibits 1966, 1967, 1968. Exhibition with Excitement and Adventure”, 16’5” x 29” and mother/teachers/artist E. Loretta Ballard, DOUGLASVILLE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER “Bookcase”, 36” x 7’; 1992 “MOITHER-DAUGHTER SHOW”, in 1969 at Three-person Exhibit Margaret Dickey Gallery, D. C. Teachers College. February 2001, Douglasville, Georgia

CONTACT INFORMATION: Moved to Boston Massachusetts in January, 1969. HAMMONDS HOUSE GALLERIES

Taught art in Brookline Public School System for “APPLIQUE WORKS”, a solo exhibition, Name: K. Joy Ballard Peters three years. Studied at Boston University, received November 5–December 31, 2000, Atlanta, GA. Website: www.njoysart.com Master of Fine Arts in Art Education in 1974 with Email: [email protected] OR [email protected] minor in Education. Co-Director of the Children’s TALLAHASSEE CITY HALL ART GALLERY Phone: 404-402-6764 Art Centre, 1973. Works shown in D.C. Art “SILENT THUNDER”, June 30- August 2. 1997

Association Annual Exhibits from 1971-1976. Yvonne Edwards Tucker & K. Joy Ballard Peters “CELEBRATING DECADES OF JOY” First appliqués shown in 1973. Two- Person Exhibit; Tallahassee, Florida Southwest Arts Center Performance Theater

Gallery… Atlanta, Georgia Relocated to Atlanta, Georgia in August 1973. AWARDS:

Founding faculty member in University System of 1970s Georgia’s Atlanta Metropolitan College (formerly ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION “Gran’s Garden”, appliqué/yarn, 1973 Atlanta Junior College) from September 1974 – Second Place Award, Mixed Media category, 1990, “Kitchen Talk”, appliqué, 1979 February 2001; Retired as a Professor of Art. Atlanta, Georgia “The Marketplace”, 1979 Active in the visual arts community on neighborhood, city, county, and state levels serving “Black Arts Renaissance, A CELEBRATION OF EXCELLENCE”, One of three visual arts awards 1980s on all arts council for a period of time. presented during Delta Sigma Theta National “And Now To Another Neighborhood”, 1980

Convention, 1985. “The Learning Tree”, ??? First major exhibition showing appliqués was “Growth and Strength”, appliqué/clay/1983 THREE D.C. ARTISTS SHOW, Smith –Mason Artwork on the cover of EMPHASIS magazine, Gallery, 1974, Washington, D.C.. Group shows 1983, Vol. XXX, National Association of Market 1990s included Atlanta Artists Club Traveling Shows, Developers. Appliqué, “Profile of a Black in Silver Lining Series, “Inlet to Passion”, 1990 Black Artists/ Atlanta Annual Exhibitions. Juried Corporate America”. “The Me You See… Is The Me You Want Shows include “Artists in Georgia”, “Atlanta Life Me To Be # 5”. 1997 Annual Exhibits”, “Atlanta Arts Festival”. One First Prize, JUHO RISSANEN PICTORIAL ART “The Four Seasons: Winter”, 1994-96 Woman Atlanta Exhibits include: “Expressions of EVENT, Kuopio, Finland, 1980. Ten day “The Four Seasons: Spring”, 1994-96 Joy”, 1977, Handshake Gallery; “Quiet Fire”, international activity. One of two artists “The Four Seasons: Summer”, 1994-96 1979, Phoenix Arts Cultural Center; representing the USA. “The Four Seasons: Fall”, 1994-96 “EXHIBITION OF RECENT APPLIQUES”,

1981, Phoenix Gallery. Art work in Bishop College EVENTS: 2000s Collection, Texas; Georgia Art Bus, Fulton County “Iguana”, 2002 Arts Council, Apex Museum, Bellsouth in Atlanta, Creator and Coordinator of NBAF Artists’ Market. “We Can See Clearly”, 2002 Georgia; other corporate and private collections NATIONAL BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL, “Remembering Love”, 2009-2010 including Brown & Company CPA, PLLC Georgia World Congress Center 2008; Greenbriar (Maryland) and Andrea Young. Mall, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2000, 2010s

1998, 1996, 1994, 1992, 1990, 1988.NBAF Visual “Going A Courting”, 2010 HIGHLIGHTS Arts Coordinator 1992, Co-Coordinator NBAF “Taxi, Taxi”, 2011 EXHIBITS: International Marketplace, 2009, Woodruff Arts “A Drumming Spirit”, 2011 Abernathy Arts Center Atlanta, GA Center. “Blossoming in Song and Dance”, 2013 GEORIGA ARTISTS: A JURIED ART EXHIBIT “Knowing That Knowledge is Power”, 2013 One appliqué in this group exhibition Coordinator, Project SmART Mural Experience, “I Will Eat For A Lifetime”, 2013 May 1- June 12, 2015 GREENBRIAR MALL; Working with students “I Play This Instrument For God”, 2013 from 3 Atlanta Elementary Schools, July 1995. Southwest Arts Center Performance Theater Gallery “Celebrating Fruits of The Water”, 2013

“CELEBRATING DECADES OF JOY” “Precious Rain Forrest Caretaker”, 2013 Conducted workshops at both HIGH MUSEUM of Appliqué Artworks by K. Joy Ballard Peters “Celebration”, 2014 ART locations; July 1995, and August 1994. Other February 13 – March 13, 2015 “Dancing Machines”, 2014 HIGH MUSEUM experiences include training Solo Exhibition… Atlanta, Georgia “We Are What We Eat”, 2014 docents/conducting tours for Romare Bearden’s “The Couple”, 2015 CULTURAL ARTS CENTER of DOUGLASVILLE “Memory & Metaphor”, 1992 & “A Retrospective “Classroom: Show and Tell”, 2015 Two concurrent One- person shows of the work of Henry Ossawa. Tanner”, 1991; “Jumping Rope”, 2015 K. Joy Ballard Peters and Robby Pope Workshop for “Gee’s Bend Quilt “ show.