Joanna-Williams-Obituary

Joanna Gottfried Williams

Berkeley, California

1939 - 2022

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Joanna Gottfried WilliamsSeptember 24, 1939 - June 16, 2022Joanna Gottfried Williams, Professor Emerita of South and Southeast Asian Art at the University of California Berkeley, died quietly at her Berkeley home on June 16, 2022. She was among the world's foremost scholars of South Asian Art,...

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I have write up in her memory. She had worked in Odisha state in India on Palm Leaf paintings and other art forms. She has written a few books on her research too. Where do I post my article? I am writing the text here: Odisha remembers Joanna Williams Joanna Gottfried Williams was her full name, and the art of South Asia was her first love. Visual art in all forms - folk art, textiles, paintings, palm leaf paintings. History of art so bewitched her that for her post-doc, she studied...

Joanna was one of the easiest person to work with even tho I was just her caregiver she became my family she will always have a place in me and my kids heart some of my family didn´t meet her but I talked about her so much it was like they met her RIP Jo I love you