JOY KLOMAN is a former tenured associate professor at the University of Mississippi, where she supervised graduate and undergraduate painting programs. She also taught drawing in London.

Kloman earned her MFA from the University of Florida and her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. She received a Mississippi Arts Commission Individual Artist State Grant and has had her work featured in The Drawing Center Viewing Program & Slide Registry in New York.

Her art has been showcased in numerous nationally juried exhibitions, including the Florida Biennial, Sarasota Biennial, and Boca Raton Museum of Art: All Florida. She has received several honors, including the "First Award" in the Florida National and the Masur Museum of Art: Annual.

Kloman has participated in international artist residencies in Latvia (hosted by the Rothko Museum), Hungary, and Sardinia. Her works are part of many private and public collections, including the Vilaka Museum and the future Valdis Bušs Art Centre in Latvia, Balatonfüred City Hall in Hungary, and the Ringling Museum of Art, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Pensacola Museum of Art, and Meridian Museum of Art in the United States.

Now based in Hood River, Oregon, Kloman owns and operates Joy’s Art Studio, where she creates and teaches art for both adults and children.