Joan Myers: Where the Buffalo Roamed: Images of the New West

About Joan Myers

Joan Myers was born in Des Moines Iowa in 1944. Her photographs have appeared in more than fifty solo and eighty group exhibitions throughout the United States and they are included in the permanent collections of the Amon Carter Museum Bibliothèque Nationale de France Center for Creative Photography Denver Art Museum George Eastman House International Museum of Photography High Museum of Art Minneapolis Museum of Art Museum of Fine Arts Houston Museum of Modern Art Nevada Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art among others. In 2002 the National Science Foundation awarded Myers a prestigious Antarctic Artists and Writers Grant to photograph at McMurdo Station surrounding field stations historic huts and the South Pole. That resulted in a major traveling exhibition and accompanying book Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey (Smithsonian Books 2006) which won an Honorable Mention from the American Association of Museums 2006 Publications Competition.