Jo-Ann Lizio

Jo-Ann Lizio is a fine artist, art therapist and art educator. Born in Peekskill, NY, she resides in Naples, FL. Ms. Lizio is classically trained, having received her BS in Art Education from the State University College at Buffalo, NY, and her MA in Therapeutic Techniques of Art Education from the College of New Rochelle, NY in 1975.

From May '75 to July '87 she was Chair of the School of Arts and Sciences Arts Department, Assistant Professor of Art and the Supervisor of Art Student Teachers at the College of New Rochelle, New York. She served as an art consultant at a school for learning disabled and as a Registered Art Therapist in private practice. She has taught art in Florida, Massachusetts and New York. She is the former Education Coordinator at the von Liebig Art Center in Naples. She is the Coordinator of Visual Arts for the Renaissance Academy of The Florida Gulf Coast University. She currently teaches privately as well as for the The Art League of Bonita Springs.

She was a staff member of a research project funded by the National Institute of Education, directed by Dr. Rawley Silver of Sarasota, FL. The project was titled, "The Development of Cognitive Skills of Handicapped Children Through Art".

She is an accomplished artist with works exhibited in galleries in New York, Massachusetts and Florida, as well as in private collections internationally. Recent exhibitions have included The von Liebig Art Center in Naples, Florida and The Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C.