jozie Furchgott Sourdiffe

Jozie Furchgott Sourdiffe b. 1986 in Lincoln, Vermont, currently lives and works between Miami, Florida and Vermont. She received a BFA from Hampshire College in 2008 and completed an internship at Wingate Studios in Hinsdale, New Hampshire from 2008-2009 in Intaglio print production. Her practice as a multidisciplinary artist includes painting, intaglio printmaking, and the book arts. Furchgott Sourdiffe has exhibited locally and nationally. Since 2011 she has been a licensed tattooer, traveling across the country and building a reputation as a sought-after fine art tattooer. The healing power and sculptural elements of tattooing have a direct influence on her fine art practice which heavily centers around gender, sexuality, and art as a tool of healing and transformation. With her belief in the therapeutic powers of creating work based on one’s story, Furchgott Sourdiffe has led self portraiture workshops with children and teens in Miami, FL, Burlington, VT, and Ghana, West Africa. She is one of the founders and an active board member of the Vermont based Non-Profit, Friends For A_Dog Foundation, whose core mission is to provide free programming in the arts and skateboarding to underserved youth. Throughout her practice she has interwoven art with her work in social justice, and has been a contributing member of the Miami, Florida based collectives Poetry For The People and FemPower.