A University of Texas BFA graduate, Joe Anna Arnett was a Senior Art Director for Young & Rubicam Agency in New York, where she continued her fine arts studies at the Art Students’ League.

Arnett‘s work has been exhibited at the Denver Historical Society, the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, the Gilcrease Museum, the Albuquerque Museum, the Tucson Museum of Fine Arts, the National Cowgirl Museum, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, the Cincinnati Museum Center, and Art Asia in Hong Kong. She wrote for The Artist’s Magazine, American Arts Quarterly, ART Ideas, and Australian Artists Magazine, and was featured in the International Herald Tribune, Southwest Art, and Western Art Digest.

A Master Signature member of Plein Air Artists of Colorado, and a Signature member of Oil Painters of America and Laguna Plein Air Painters, Arnett was a master artist, co-producer, and writer for the PBS Series, “Passport & Palette.” In 2018, her work received awards from Plein Air Magazine’s Salon, Outdoor Painters Society, Plein Air Southwest, and the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society.