GETTIN' TO THE GOOD WOOD

About the Author...

A self-taught artist, E. Joyce Moore, whose artistic name is JEMI, has had a passion for art from childhood.  Her first choice as a career was in the field of fashion design.  She continued to pursue that dream, majoring in Home Economics while attending Ambassador University in Texas. "I didn't take a single cooking class.  I attended both Ambassador and Kilgore College concurrently and full-time, so that I could take courses in Fashion Merchandising and still get my degree.  Although I took twenty-four hours a semester, I had fun because I had a passion for what I was pursuing."  After college, her road toward design took a detour, as family responsibilities took priority.  Joyce attended Northwestern University in the evenings, pursuing a Master of Arts degree in Advertising, but decided that it would not fulfill her creative goals.  She spent her business career with AT&T in various positions from diversity workshop facilitator to national account manager.  In 1998, she founded a grassroots organization to support the education of and about artists of color and African descent,  Alliance of African American Artists Foundation, Inc.
Joyce also exhibits her creative talents in another medium: writing.  Joyceis a poet and a writer  in multiple genres published  a number of publications and e-zines including Black Suburban Journal newspaper, American Vision magazine, and Newslink, a professional development publication, Nuvo, and more.  Her writing experiences include interviews of public figures such as Kwesi Mfume, Ed Gordon, Slide Hampton and the Hampton family.  She wrote her first non-fiction book,  “Gettin’ to the Good Wood” and her first collection of poetry “ Ramblings Through the Attic of Thought.”  Joyce is a contributor to Chicken Soup for the African American Soul, now available in bookstores, as well as other books and anthologies, including What is the Purpose of a Banana? by Dr. Carlton Green, The MoAD Stories Project, The MoAD Stories Project: I've Known Rivers, Gumbo for the Soul.    She has also expressed her creativity on film, directing a cable television show in Indiana back in 1984, creating an infomercial for AT&T products in 1988 and producing a video introducing African American Fine Artists for the  2001 National Black Fine Arts Show in Manhattan.  She has completed two children's books -- I Like Brown and Princess Jahzzara both of which are in the illustration process. She has also written two screenplays and is working on a third. 

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