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Joanna Spitzner

Living in Syracuse, New York, Joanna Spitzner is interested in the experiential nature of art. Her work involves video, images, ephemera, performances, and writing. The Joanna Spitzner Foundation is a Syracuse-based foundation designed to give small grants to artists, grants that are funded by wages donated from work performed by Spitzner herself.

The Spitzner Foundation is both an art work-in-progress as well as a functioning private foundation. Spitzner also works at Syracuse University, where she teaches Time Arts in the Department of Foundation.

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"Joanna Spitzner." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/joanna-spitzner.

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Joanna Spitzner, living in Syracuse, New York, is an artist interested in the experiential nature of art; her practice includes video, images, ephemera, performances and writing. She established the Joanna Spitzner Foundation, a Syracuse-based private foundation that awards small grants to artists funded by wages donated from work performed by Spitzner; the foundation functions both as an artwork-in-progress and as a functioning private foundation. Spitzner also teaches Time Arts in the Department of Foundation at Syracuse University.

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