Jo Sonja A Life in Folk Art
In 2011, Jo Sonja Jansen was proclaimed to be A LIVING TREASURE by the National Museum of Decorative Painting (Atlanta, Georgia) in recognition of her exceptional talents, educational contributions, and preservation of decorative painting.As such, she is deemed to be a true creator, whose work shines brightly as a standard for this and future generations of practitioners of the art form and is invested with the mission to ensure that this invaluable heritage is passed on so that its techniques are renewed and forever reinvented.