International artist Joni Zavitsanos was interviewed here on the Waynesburg University television station about her art exhibit at the university and how her work stems from a long family tradition. She recently lectured at the school. Her show there, which includes works by both her and her late father, is called “My Father’s Daughter: Byzantine […]
International artist Joni Zavitsanos is set to exhibit and lecture at Waynesburg University’s Department of Fine Arts. The show, “My Father’s Daughter: Byzantine Art in the Modern World,” will run from March 21 through June 20. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend. Ms. Zavitsanos, who has previously showed at Fordham University, will also […]
International artist Joni Zavitsanos was featured in a Q & A interview on the website CanvasRebel in “Meet Joni Zavitsanos.” In her interview she discusses how art has permeated her life from the time her artist father let her sit beside him in his studio with her own paper, pencils, ink, crayons, and paint; through […]
International artist Joni Zavitsanos was interviewed October 12 by Craig Cohen on his radio show Houston Matters on Houston Public Media, the Houston-based NPR station. They discussed her “LIVING ICONS: A Commemoration of the Victims of Houston’s Covid-19 Pandemic” which will be on display this October 16 through next year at the John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science in Houston. You […]
International artist Joni Zavitsanos was quoted and pictured in a Reuters’ piece U.S. COVID-19 deaths cross painful 600,000 milestone as country reopens. In a story about the pain American families have suffered because of CoVid, the news service discusses the amazing memorial Ms. Zavitsanos has developed to honor the Houston area dead. “In Houston, artist […]
International artist Joni Zavitsanos’ “LIVING ICONS: A Commemoration of the Victims of Houston’s Covid-19 Pandemic” will be on display this October 2021 – May 2022(update) at the John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science in Houston. Ms. Zavitsanos said of this exhibit: “This Project and the creative catalyst it generated found its way […]
Artist Joni Zavitsanos is profiled in an interview on the website ShoutoutHTX in Meet Joni Zavitsanos: Artist where she discusses her CoVid memorial project, her art, her muses and places she loves in Houston. Ms. Zavitsanos explains how she decided to memorialize Houston area victims of the CoVid pandemic. She scoured local news and reached […]
In an ABC-TV “Localish” feature “Artist wants you to see the faces of COVID-19 victims” the COVID-19 victims memorial of international artist Joni Zavitsanos is illustrated and explained. “It doesn’t mean so much when you hear the statistics on the news. So I hope that I am giving these people a face and a name,” […]
In a story “Local artist remembers faces of COVID-19 through new project,” KPRC-TV reporter Brandon Walker explains to Houston viewers the art project that international artist Joni Zavitsanos is developing to honor the lives of Houston area people lost to the virus. “I don’t want these loved ones to be forgotten . . . A […]
International artist Joni Zavitsanos was featured in the February 2020 issue of Swoon Memorial magazine which called her work “spiritually infused art.” The magazine issue noted her January-February Houston gallery showing and that she honored her father’s work at that MATCH Gallery mid-town event. “As a contemporary artist, Joni eschews the constraints of traditional iconography […]