Local artist receives international recognition

Local Polson artist Joanne Simpson, honored and appreciated in Montana and Michigan for more than 30 years, has received her first international recognition by being accepted to exhibit in the 96th Annual National Watercolor Society International Exhibition in San Pedro, Calif., Oct. 22 through Dec. 18. After having one of her landscape batik on rice paper paintings, Little Salmon River, accepted for the exhibition she learned that she also received “Signature Status,” allowing her to include NWS after her name on all watercolor art.