Exhibit Artist (Retired)

Exhibition Department

American Museum of Natural History

 

Exploring her grandparents’ dairy farm in New Jersey every weekend as a “free-range” child growing up in the fifties and sixties, Joyce Cloughly became fascinated by the natural world at a young age. After graduating with a BS in biology from Beloit College in Wisconsin, she became staff artist/naturalist at the Somerset County Environmental Education Center in the Great Swamp in NJ. Her interest in art and nature led to a career in the Exhibition Department at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Museum expeditions have taken her to the Florida Everglades, Costa Rica and the Central African Republic, collecting plants and making molds and models for dioramas and exhibitions. Always interested in archaeology, Joyce Cloughly has more recently participated as a volunteer at numerous “digs” in the UK, working at sites dating from Neolithic to Roman times.