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Born Joan Amerman Edwards in New York in 1936, Joan Jonas studied art history at Mount Holyoke College (1954-59), sculpture at the Boston Museum School (1958-61) and visual art at Columbia University (1961-64). She was also taught to dance (1967-69) by Trisha Brown, Deborah Hay, Yvonne Rainer and Steve Paxton, all members of the legendary New York Judson Dance Theatre. She began working as a sculptor but then turned to the medium of performance, which she has since developed and left her mark on indelibly. Jonas has been awarded diverse fellowships and grants for choreography, video-art and visual art from sponsors including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the CAT Fund, the Artist TV Lab at WNET/13 (New York City), the Television Workshop at WXX1 (Rochester) and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)/German Academic Exchange Service. Jonas has received the Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Modern Art prize at the Tokyo International Video Art Festival, the Polaroid Award for video-art and the American Film Institute Maya Deren Award for video-art.http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?4042