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Josephine Burgwyn Pratt
Josephine Pratt was born and raised on a farm in eastern North Carolina. Jo grew up with a love for art and dance. She left the farm to expand that love of dance by studying at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, earning a degree in Dance Performance.
After a fulling career in performing and teaching dance, Jo continued to intertwine her interest in art and dance by creating her own original dolls. Her doll-making led to a desire to redirect her creativity to a new area which became her passion: figurative sculpture.
As only someone who has been trained as a dancer can sometimes do, she is able to translate the essence of a dancer's movement and expression into sculpture that has breathtaking beauty, while portraying a dancer's technique accurately, a frequently missing component in contemporary sculpture. In her works, the language of the body comes alive in three- dimensional reality - the culmination of her creative dream.
Still intensely enthusiastic about sculpting, she maintains studios in Florida and North Carolina and commutes between them with Dan, her husband of over forty years, who together have raised sons, Jim and Steve.
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