Joy Shannon

Joy Shannon is the recording, performing and visual artist front-woman of the band “Joy Shannon and the Beauty Marks.” Joy has a bachelors degree in Visual Arts (with a focus in printmaking) and Theatre Arts (with a focus in theatre design) and a masters degree in American Studies (with a focus on cultural art history) from California State University at Fullerton. Joy’s art and music are deeply inspired by cultural history and express Joy’s emotional reflection on historical issues, especially women’s issues. Joy creates printmaking and mixed media works on paper which use the figure to express human emotions and spiritual concepts. Joy is also a tattoo artist under the name Triple Goddess Tattoos.