MEET THE ARTISTS
Ann Moorefield & Joan Payton
Joan has been creating and sharing her art work throughout her life. Even while employed in a variety of social work positions, she made and sold paintings and jewelry as well as rugs and wall hangings using primitive rug hooking techniques. She has an impressive resume of magazine features and commissioned works. Her art is on display at the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, St. Philips Episcopal Cathedral Children’s Chapel in Atlanta, and St. Giles Chapel at Deerfield Retirement Community in Asheville, NC.
Ann spent her career at Presbyterian College in South Carolina, where the majority of the time she was Director of Freshman English, ending her tenure as Co-Chair of the English Department. During the last decade, she was also Director of Women’s Studies, a program which she helped found. Before moving to Asheville, she had never shared her own writing,
Joan set out to use her rug hooking skills to create faces of women of different backgrounds, hoping that these women could be used to raise money and awareness for women’s causes. Because these faces needed voices to make them come alive, Ann wrote a medley of women’s voices, voices that attached not to any specific woman but to any women anywhere. They hoped that the faces and voices would convey a sense of the sisterhood of all women and would inspire support for efforts to empower women no matter who or where they are.