Joyce Lyon’s work focuses on the intersection of place and memory. She makes oil stick drawings, image/text installations and artist’s books that are represented in public and private collections internationally, including the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Thomas University, Georgetown University Law Library, the Florida Holocaust Museum/Tampa, the Federal Reserve Bank/Minneapolis, and the Weisman Art Museum. Joyce was a founding member of WARM Gallery: The Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and the University of Minnesota, where she is Professor of Art, emerita.