"Joy Price"

Work from local artist and Box Butte Art Society member Joy Price

SEPTEMBER 2ND TO NOVEMBER 15TH, 2025

Joy Montgomery Price is a fourth generation member of pioneer Colorado and Wyoming ranch families. She was born in Craig, Colo., and grew up at nearby Dixon, Wyoming. 

Joy's lifetime interest in art has been strengthened by her studeies. She began the formal study of oil and watercolor at Union College in Lincoln, NE and has continued her education at Chadron State College in Chadron, NE, Western Nebraska Community College in Scottsbluff, NE and numerous seminars and workshops.

Joy has studied on location with several internationally known artists including Foster Caddell, Reynold Brown, and George Cherpov in oil; William B. Schimmel, Sr. in acrylic; Dong Kingman, Claude Croney, Zoltan Szabo, Rose Edin, Judi Betts and Tony Couch in watercolor. 

She has taught courses for local and regional high school conference activity days, conducted painting demonstrations for area art clubs as well as Elderhostel seminars.

Joy currently makes her home near Hemingford, NE in northwest Nebraska. The Hemingford community has benefited from Joy's work on the mural scenes for the annual Christmas diorama. She was honored to have her design win a logo contest for Hemingford's centennial celebration in 1986.

Her illustration are included in the books of the late Colorado author and historian V.S. Fitzpatrick.

Joy's works hang in privatae and corprate collection across the United States. Permanenet collections that include her work are: the Knight Museum, Alliance, NE, the Little Snake River Museum, Savery, WY, and the Museum of Northwest Colorado, Craig, CO. 

She generously shares her work through roatating displays at the Hemingford Community Care Center and in various businesses in Hemingford and Alliance, NE.