Detail: The current project by artist Joy Lynn Davis documents community response to the theft of stone sculptures from the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal.

Joy Lynn Davis is an artist from Santa Barbara, California. She is currently an Artist in Residence at Kathmandu Contemporary Art Center in Patan, Nepal. She received her BA in Art from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2002, where she focused on painting and digital art. In addition, she has studied the Tibetan and Nepali languages, Himalayan art history and religions, as well as traditional thangka painting. In 2008 and 2009, she was awarded a Warhol Fellowship at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Her acrylic and gold leaf paintings often combine realism with traditional Nepali and Tibetan motifs and styles. Her paintings are the culmination of travels, interviews, photography, and art surveys conducted in Asia over the last ten years.