Artist Bio

The ANNJO features the artwork of Jo Ann O’Rear of Brooklyn, New York.  

Brooklyn artist, Jo Ann O'Rear, creates worlds.  

Currently, she specializes in bunnies.  She is self-taught.  The first thing she officially drew was Boy Sleeping (on the right), based on a photograph of her youngest nephew sleeping on his grandpa's couch.  Her degrees are a BA in Literature and History from Northern Kentucky University, and a Masters of Art in the Humanities from St. Xavier University, in Cincinnati, Ohio.  And she is shopping a couple novels, in search of an agent.  She won three grants for her creative writing when she was younger; two in playwriting and one in fiction from The Kentucky Arts Council and The Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Diane Arbus

Ways of Seeing

Language of the Humanities class while earning a Master of Arts in the Humanities from St. Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

SoHo street artist McNally Jackson Bookstore

Exhibts Include:

L'Albero dei Gelato 2016 End of Year Performance Art Project Solo Art Show, Animals Galore and a Tree, Albero dei Gelati, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 2015.  40 Cows for Peace Public Art Show, Lakeville, CT, 2011, Animals in the Country, Gilded Moon Gallery, Millerton, New York, 2012.  Participated in Several Collaborative Art Shows with the 14th Colony Arts Collective, Millerton, New York, 2011-2012, Fall for Art Festival, Millerton, New York, 2011

In early 2019, she began the public art project, Painting For PTSD, which can be found on Instagram @paintingforptsd.