Jo Williams

A  native Texan, Jo Williams has spent most of her life  among the woods and prairies of North Central Texas.  Although she loves to paint the gentle scenery of her native area, she also enjoys painting more exotic scenery of mountains, canyons, desert, the ocean, and other sites from her travels.

Williams has lived in Denton, TX for thirty years where she is very active in the arts community.  She has a degree in art education from the University of North Texas and has taught public school art.  She has been teaching privately for about twenty-five years including community education classes for the University of North Texas. A popular teacher, she conducts workshops throughout  the southwest including Texas, New Mexico, Arizona,  Oklahoma, and Mexico.   In the summer of 2000, she taught in the Colorado Plateau Painting Workshop at Flagstaff, AZ.  In addition to teaching, she gives demonstrations for area art organizations and judges regional art exhibits. Currently she teaches classes at the Center for the Visual Arts in Denton.

Williams holds  signature memberships in Southwestern Watercolor Society since 1991 and Artists and Craftsman Association since 1987.  She is also a member of the Kingston National Registry of Who’s Who.  Her work has been exhibited in numerous regional and national juried exhibitions.  She has won a number of awards including Best of Show in the Texas Neighbors Art Competition in Irving and the North Texas Area Art League Annual Juried Exhibition 2000 in Denton.  Williams and her husband Johnny won the prestigious Community Arts Recognition Award (CARA) in Denton in 2003. 

She has had several solo exhibitions including an invitational exhibit at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri and an invitational exhibit at the Center for Visual Arts in Denton.  Her work is included in many private collections and public collections including Raytheon, Ben E. Keith Co., Denton Publishing Company, City of Denton, and the Greater Denton Arts Council.