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Bio - JH career overview art from 1950-2004.

Josepha Haveman is frequently described as a 'media artist'. Her art and her academic special interests are in the relationship of media to culture: from pre-historic times into the future. However, her own art is media independent, in as much as its content and style are altered little by the differences between media.

Josepha first studied art in Amsterdam, then art and anthropology at San Francisco State University. She subsequently did graduate work in cultural anthropology at the University of California in Berkeley and worked as a staff member (museum artist/ exhibition designer and also as museum photographer) at the University of California Museum of Anthropology (now known as the Hearst Museum).

 Subsequently Prof. Haveman has also received an advanced degree in art and has taught photography as a fine art at colleges and universities in California, Oregon, Israel, and Europe.  In addition to her twenty year tenure at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Haveman has also taught computer graphics and digital designing at CCAC and City College of San Francisco. 

Josepha's artwork has been exhibited widely at galleries and museums in several countries: Canada, Europe, Israel and the U.S.

Josepha Haveman has been exploring the potentials of digital media in art, design, and education with personal computers since 1981. She has designed and produced 10 CD ROMs for art and education using her own content material plus a multi-media volume in anthropology about New Guinea tribal life that now has also been published in Australia as a beautiful book, by the University of Canberra Press.