Joan Baez Art
In her history-making career as an international performer and activist, Joan Baez has been on the front lines of just about every nonviolent social justice and human rights movement of the past century. She walked arm-in-arm with Martin Luther King Jr. on civil rights marches in Mississippi, got thrown in jail for protesting the War in Vietnam and conspired with Vaclav Havel to spark the Velvet Revolution.
Since she retired from active performing, Joan has been able to focus her talents in the visual arts on painting and drawing, creating art with a social conscience. Her second “Mischief Makers” exhibition – portraits of risk-taking visionaries who have fought for social change through nonviolent action took place from January 1 through February 14. In celebration of the Joan's 80th birthday, a reception was streamed on her birthday, January 9 with an interview with Baez, a virtual tour of her exhibition, Mischief Makers 2, music, memories and even some dancing!
“Mischief Makers 2” is the eagerly awaited follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut “Mischief Makers” in 2017, a sold-out show at Seager Gray that launched her career as a painter. For the new “Mischief Makers,” Joan brings us portraits of such inspiring and often controversial figures as Dr. Anthony Fauci, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Greta Thunberg, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Michael Moore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela, Emma Gonzalez, Coretta Scott King, Bob Dylan, Wavy Gravy, Patti Smith and a young Mahatma Gandhi.
To follow Joan Baez on her website, go to www.joanbaez.com.