Janet Kozachek

Orangeburg, SC

Janet Kozachek is an internationally trained and exhibited artist. She received her Master of Fine Arts Degree from Parsons School of Design in New York, where she studied with nationally famous artists Larry Rivers, Paul Resika, John Heliker and Leland Bell. Ms. Kozachek also lived, worked and studied in China for five years, including two years of graduate study at the the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing (CAFA), where she learned Chinese Writing, Painting and Seal Carving. Janet Kozachek has lived at various times in Europe where she taught, painted and studied ceramics. In addition to her painting, Janet Kozachek is a well-known mosaic artist, and was the Founding President of the Society of American Mosaic Artists. Her work is in the collections of the Morris Museum of Art, The South Carolina State Museum, The Columbia Museum of Art, The I.P. Stanback Museum, The Calhoun County Museum and in numerous private collections.



Janet Kozachek has received a Puffin Foundation Award, National Endowment for the Arts subgrant awards, a Heritage Foundation Award, a Humanities Council Award and a Helena Rubinstein Scholar Award. Her digital records of over 2600 works are part of the archive of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. She has published several articles, essays, poetry, a book of illustrated rhymes for the cat, “The Book of Marvelous Cats," and her illustrated poetry chapbook, “My Women My Monsters” will be published in 2018.