March 24, 2000

Posted March 24, 2000

Lovers of Joni's visual art will be delighted to hear that the first-ever retrospective of Joni's artwork, called VOICES, runs from June 30 to September 3 at the Mendel Art Gallery in her hometown of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (3/29 update: the exhibition will now run until September 17); there are plans to tour the exhibition in Canada (and perhaps internationally) after that. Joni is expected to attend the opening reception. An article in the March 18 Toronto Star reports that gallery director and curator Gilles Hebert says the show's 80 works include "everything from her felt-marker and line drawings of the '60s, to photo-based work of the '80s and her recent oil-based paintings." A 64-page, full-color, hard-cover catalogue of the exhibition, as well as a life-size poster of one of the works commemorating the exhibition, will also be available. A formal media release is expected within the next two weeks.