About the Artist:
Artist Biography
Joy Cotton was born in Los Angeles, California where she resided for the first eight years of her adolescence, later she and her family moved to Nebraska where she has lived since 2006. Joy’s a multi-media artist whose paintings center around an introspective fusion of fashion, surrealism, dreams, and whimsy. A graduate of University of Nebraska at Omaha, Joy often collaborates with other artists and organizations within the Omaha arts community. In recent years, she has worked on projects with Omaha Summer Arts Festival (OSAF) Cube murals, Benson First Friday (BFF), Midtown Crossing Sunny Chair project, Amplify Arts Alternate Currents Working Group (ACWG) 2022-2023/2024, and American Civil Liberties Union Nebraska (ACLUNE).