Jo. Hurst has had a dual career of professional sculptor and research scientist for the past 30 years.  Formal training in art was obtained in high school, college, at the New School for Social Research, the Art Students League in New York, and with various professional sculptors.  Her work has been shown at several academic exhibits, the DeLigny Gallery in Fort Lauderdale, for Art’s Sake gallery in Dania, the Beresford Gallery in West Palm Beach, the Jockey Club in Miami, and in several gallery-shops in the Bahamas.  Her work is held by a number of private collectors.  She has managed several exhibitions of equestrian art at the Royal Palm Polo Club in Boca Raton.  She formed a corporation “Equestrianarts, Inc.” in 1981 to manage and sell her art works.   She has received a number of awards for her sculptings and has completed several commissioned works.  She has been a member of art associations in Ft. Lauderdale and continues to exhibit at their shows.  For the past 5 years, she has devoted full time to sculpting and shares Henri Moretti’s studio in Oakland Park.  She was one of the founding members and on the Board of Directors of the New River Arts and Crafts Association, Inc. She tries to capture lines of motion in human, animal and abstract forms and continues to experiment with new materials and techniques to achieve this goal.  She has also become fluent with some computer graphics software in order to experiment with new digital art forms.

    She obtained her Ph.D. in Physiology/Hematology at St. John's University in New York. Her scientific background consists mainly of basic research in oncology/hematology and teaching at the graduate and post graduate level.  She was Director of Research and Education at the Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research, Associate Professor at St. John’s University Graduate School of Arts and Science, Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol School of Medicine UK, visiting researcher at the Patterson Laboratories-Holt Radiation Lab., Manchester UK, Consultant-Laboratory Chief for Biotherapeutics, Inc., Consultant-Chief for the Cancer Diagnostic Laboratory at North Ridge General Hospital, consultant for Department of Medicine: Brookhaven National Laboratories, Head of the Division of Marine Derived Anti-Cancer Drugs: New York Ocean Science Laboratory, research consultant for the Univ. of Alabama: School of Medicine.  She has received numerous research grants and written more than 20 research papers and book chapters.