Joianne Bittle announcements

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Morphogenic Drawings

Morphogenic Drawings | The Inland Sea 2026

New Works | New York City

2026

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It's time! Social Photography (XII) benefit raffle + show at Carriage Trade Gallery @ Peter Scott.

Emily Harvey Foundation 

537 Broadway #2, New York, NY

March 28, 5:00-8:00 pm

open bar and raffle event

featuring performances by 

Lee Ranaldo and David Watson & Yellow Tears

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Doha, Qatar 2026.

It was a privilege to work hard/play hard this month for Art Basel in Qatar. Ancient history preserved in newness - the museums, education city & the library, the Souq, and tea in the Inland Sea Desert.

Looking forward to new works and stories of shell builders, quadrant charts, placoderms, ungulates, and masked falcons.

photos NK Studio

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What the spider sees...Back in the studio after CUNY graduation last spring (2025) - a new octet rule. Please visit my studio blog page here. https://joibittlestudio.tumblr.com/

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Study Abroad Experiences: Trip to India by LaGuardia Community College Via Flickr: Journey to India with Joianne Bittle, an Environmental Science student here at LaGuardia! Thanks to sponsorship from Global and Experiential Learning and a CUNY grant sponsored program, Joianne travelled to India August 2- 20, 2024. While studying abroad, Joianne engaged in sustainability and cross-cultural diplomatic activities in Mumbai, New Delhi and Odisha. Other activities included visiting the Taj Mahal; engaging in yoga/meditation activities, installing a solar powered weather station; using mobile backpack weather stations to monitor local weather and converting plastic into diesel fuel.

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"Morphology, Microscopy, Mapping the Spider Genus Zelanda"

CUNY Research Scholar Program (CRSP) 2025

"Museum collections often hold answers to questions that have yet to be asked."

~ Joi Bittle

LAGCC CRSP Ground Spiders Featured Talk

9 July 2025

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Leafcutter Ants at Work - J. Bittle Animal Behavior & Ethics, CUNY.

I just completed a detailed ethogram observation study of a colony of Leafcutter ants (Atta cephalotes) currently at the American Museum of Natural History (2024). Check out my poster results.

I specifically focused on the caste collaboration between majors (soliders) and media (leaf carriers).

There were many new discoveries and questions.

...ask me about the evolution of mandibles!

This poster was presented at several CUNY Science Research Poster Conferences, spring 2025.

Queens College - winner

LaGCC - 2nd place winner

John Jay College - Women in STEM

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INDIA.

August 2024. I engaged with hundreds of students in Southern India during the classroom connect program for CUNY's Environmental Science, Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies.

Here: CUNY + KIIT + KISS - Kalingua Institute of Industrial Technology + Kalingua Institute of Social Sciences - came together for a series of events, talks and hands-on workshops including a beach clean-up on the Bengal Sea at Puri.

Also, a visit to the Sun Temple on wheels, once filled with sand… hidden inside is a magnet to hold the iron structure and capture the sun’s rays so they fall outside the temple. I learned so much from the brilliant students studying physics at KIIT/KISS ⏳🌞 Humbled beyond the moon!

Many of these students are studying science, engineering, and medicine, as well as poetry, painting, and music. We discussed the prospect of being an artist in New York City.

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SUMMER 2024 Part 1: Mycobiota + Moss + Microscopy

Mushroom Hunting in a Lab with Rutger's University, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.

Objective: The lab searches for new species of plant mycobiota - communities of fungi that inhabit plants - in the NJ Pine Barrens.

Found: Coniochaetales, a new subspecies ?!? (joi R18). After DNA isolation from New Jersey's pygmy pitch pine, gene sequencing + PCR + Gel Electrophoresis, a BLAST showed a new species was potentially discovered, but more collecting and research are needed to identify...

Conclusion - the bigger picture: Adding to the mycobiome of vascular plants in New Jersey, uncharacterized fungi were found from the pygmy pine location in the Pine Barrens. In conclusion, our results showed that non-vascular plants or mosses have an equal mycobiome to vascular plants.

Thanks to Dr. Ning Zhang's Lab - Alexis, Emily, Jing, Iviana, Megan!

From lab to field and back to my NYC studio, I’m grateful for this unique opportunity to zoom into the magnificent microcosmic worlds of plant mycobiota to better understand their rare symbiotic relationships and develop a life-long inspiration for idea-building. - Joi Bittle

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HERE: Revisiting environmental and animal sciences by rethinking the "swampscape" through the social practice and process of art-making, science research and fieldwork.

Rethinking...

Revisiting...

Reconstructing...

Thanks to LAGCC Student Ambassador's STEM program at CUNY for the invitation to present and introduce my ideas and experience to new students and the Department Chair Faculty in physical sciences + mathematics, biological + environmental science.

I'm looking forward to continuing my studies alongside this community in Long Island City.

29 Feb. 2024

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a Position on Retreat

A Canadian Art Residency based on Vancouver Island

August 2023.

I'm thrilled to be a participant with a Position on Retreat AIR on Vancouver Island next month!

...Looking to the shell-builders and storytellers for clues.

July 27, 2023: The island was once a lagoon-like environment - salt + fresh water close to the shore - that somehow became closed off from the open ocean, trenches formed present day Lake Cowichan. Amphibious whales either died or performed a conscious mass beaching - intentionally moving to land - when the lagoon dried up, something sealed them off from the sea and fresh water flowed in the trench forming the lake. New hybrid segmented creatures took shape and started to thrive on the whale bone yard.

"Fossil Matrix"

(through the chain of craters)

charcoal on paper rolls

2023 ->

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day/night/this room🪨🌿💡#backlit #refraction #reflection #thegreen #reticulite #lavafoam #basaltic #caldera #hāpuu #volcano #compound-eye #selfie (at Kilauea Volcano) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoNWT1-pd_-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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“The Hills Have Eyes” Things from Death Valley 2022

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HIstory / Mangrovama featured

Re-imagining and then building an entire marshland-swamp, piece by piece, in France after my amazing residency in the Everglades living among the raptors and reptiles was pretty f*cking insane! And, I’d do it all over again...