Veda Crewe
Joseph is an accomplished artist with an in depth background in illustration,
drawing and painting as well as clothing design
and construction. She also has studied medieval and renaissance calligraphy
and illumination.
She
was born and raised in Vermont and went to the Philadelphia College of
Art (now the University of the Arts) where she earned a BFA with Honors
in Illustration. It was at P.C.A. that she received a solid foundation
in drawing, anatomy, color and painting.
After this
she worked in a printing company and studied to get her teaching certificate.
As a result, she taught Art at Leland & Gray Union High School in southern
Vermont for three years. She is now teaching art (K-5) at the Disnard Elementary
School in Claremont New Hampshire.
Later Veda
studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and earned her MFA in
painting with a minor in printmaking.
The following
six years Veda spent as the art handler for the Robert Lehman Collection
in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York City.
Veda is known
as Morwynna Cryw and is a Baroness and a Mistress
of the Laurel for her illumination in the Society
for Creative Anachronism, Inc. (a medieval and
renaissance recreation organization) where she has also pursued her love
of costume construction and historical research, embroidery, leather work
and especially the Bardic arts of singing and storytelling.
Veda and her
husband Stuart Martin Joseph now reside with Beau (their wire hair fox
terrier) in Bellows Falls, Vermont in a dilapidated turn of the century
Victorian
house which they are renovating.
A thespian
from an early age, Veda has been very involved in community and semi professional
theater for years. She is well known for portraying
Queen Elizabeth for the Vermont Renaissance
Festival and
a few stellar roles in Gilbert & Sullivan performances
at Main Street Arts in Saxtons River. Her most challenging performance
to date was to play the role of Prospero in "The Tempest" for the
Vermont Theater Company's Shakespeare in the Park. She studies
voice with Lise Messier.
In the spring of 2007 Veda began designing for the Opera
which had turned out to be an ideal use of her various skills, even
including perfoming. She designed "Tosca" for Raylynmor Opera Company
in Keene, followed that with "Die Fledermaus" for the Opera
Theatre of Weston and will be designing "Don Giovanni" for Raylynmor in May.
Stuart and Veda
are in the process of creating a co-housing community in Rockingham
Vermont called Caer Coburn. For
this, they are finishing the renovations on their home and planning
their new house on the 125 acres of beautiful woodland north of Bellows
Falls.
Stuart Joseph performs as
The
Great Scot, a Scottish Bardic Magician.
