encouraging her students to try a variety of techniques and telling them that the work they created did not need to be perfect; what was important was that it was personal. Former students remembered her classes with gratitude. Straus was a self-taught artist. Starting with experiments in loom-weaving, she developed her style across a range of two- and three dimensional media including glass, metal, watercolor, and wood. The Joyce Straus Foundation for the Arts continues to maintain the galleries and studios she established in
“The House of Straus.”
For more information about this artist, please click on the following link: Joyce Straus.