| Joan Danziger | |
| Birth Place: | New York City, U.S. |
| Nationality: | American |
| Field: | Sculpture |
Joan Danziger (born 1934)[1] is an American sculptor. Her work is largely of large sculptures of beetles and hybrid human-animals.
Danziger grew up in Queens, New York City.[2] She graduated from Cornell University with a BFA, and studied at the Art Students League of New York, and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in Rome.
Her work has been shown at the Morris Museum, Rutgers University, and the New Jersey State Museum. Her work is in: the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[3] the National Museum of Women in the Arts Reading Public Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania, Childrens Museum of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, and Susquehanna Art Museum.[4] She is known for her large sculptures of beetles[5] [6] and hybrid human-animal forms.[7]
Her image is included in the 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.[8]
She resides and works in Washington, D.C.[6]