Jo Stealey – professor emerita, former head of the fiber program and founding director for the School of Visual Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She teaches workshops, lectures, and curates exhibitions, including the traveling exhibition and catalogue, Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America.

She is best known for her sculptural objects, artist books, installations, and mixed media based on basketry processes. She has been exhibited widely in over 300 national and international exhibitions and has work in the permanent collections such as the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the School of Art Granada Spain, the Windgate Gallery at the University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, the Springfield Art Museum, MO among others.

www.jostealey.com