{"id":26,"date":"2025-08-31T20:49:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joywangstudio.com\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-09-03T19:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:36:40","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.joywangstudio.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Joy Wang is a certified wildlife tracker, photographer and educator based in Chicago and Shanghai. In both megacities, she tunes into urban wildlife and their subtle signs of existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In China, she works to systematically compile the country\u2019s tracks and sign knowledge, and to promote the artful and attentive skill of tracking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She appreciates both the abundant natural stories revealed through tracking, and the poetic quality of tracks and signs as animals\u2019 form of language and land art<\/p>\n<\/div>

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EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 BFA, Fine Arts, \u201cArt and Environment\u201d. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CERTIFICATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024 \u201cTrack and Sign\u201d Level 3 (98%), North America Tracker Certification; Olympic Peninsula, WA, US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 \u201cTrack and Sign\u201d Level 3 (99%), North America Tracker Certification; Minneapolis, MN, US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023     \u201cTrack and Sign\u201d Level 3 (92%), North America Tracker Certification; Condon, MT, US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TALK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 Track animal signs, decode the land\u2019s stories<\/a><\/em>. Shanshui Conservation Center, China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025     Life in the City: Tracking Chicago\u2019s Urban Foxes. <\/em>North American Wildlife Trackers Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024   Life in the City: Tracking Chicago\u2019s Urban Foxes. <\/em>Northeast Wildlife Trackers Conference. Charlton, MA, US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024     Reading Animal\u2019s Stories through Tracks and Signs.<\/em> <\/a>Aurora Museum, and Shanghai Wild Bird Society, Shanghai, China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023     Track Identification of Common Mammal Families<\/em>. The Paradise International Foundation, Giant Panda National Park, Sichuan, China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTICLE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025     Cool Career \u2014Trackers<\/em>.<\/a> Magazine \u201c100000 Whys\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024     Tracking the Millennium Park Red Fox<\/em>. Northeast Wildlife Trackers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024     \u53bb\u6d77\u5c9b\uff0c\u5bfb\u627e\u795e\u5947\u52a8\u7269<\/a><\/em>. Zhoushan Higher Club.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 BFA, Fine Arts, \u201cArt and Environment\u201d. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CERTIFICATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024 \u201cTrack and Sign\u201d Level 3 (98%), North America Tracker Certification; Olympic Peninsula, WA, US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 \u201cTrack and Sign\u201d Level 3 (99%), North America Tracker Certification; Minneapolis, MN, US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023     \u201cTrack and Sign\u201d Level 3 (92%), North America Tracker Certification; Condon, MT, US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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certificates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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TALK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 Track animal signs, decode the land\u2019s stories<\/a><\/em>. Shanshui Conservation Center, China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025     Life in the City: Tracking Chicago\u2019s Urban Foxes. <\/em>North American Wildlife Trackers Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2024   Life in the City: Tracking Chicago\u2019s Urban Foxes. <\/em>Northeast Wildlife Trackers Conference. Charlton, MA, US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024     Reading Animal\u2019s Stories through Tracks and Signs.<\/em> <\/a>Aurora Museum, and Shanghai Wild Bird Society, Shanghai, China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023     Track Identification of Common Mammal Families<\/em>. The Paradise International Foundation, Giant Panda National Park, Sichuan, China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTICLE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025     Cool Career \u2014Trackers<\/em>.<\/a> Magazine \u201c100000 Whys\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024     Tracking the Millennium Park Red Fox<\/em>. Northeast Wildlife Trackers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024     \u53bb\u6d77\u5c9b\uff0c\u5bfb\u627e\u795e\u5947\u52a8\u7269<\/a><\/em>. Zhoushan Higher Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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