A self-taught artist, E. Joyce Moore, whose artistic name is JEMI, has had a passion for art from childhood.  Her first choice as a career was in the field of fashion design.  She continued to pursue that dream, majoring in Home Economics while attending Ambassador University in Texas. "I didn't take a single cooking class.  I attended both Ambassador and Kilgore College concurrently and full-time, so that I could take courses in Fashion Merchandising and still get my degree.  Although I took twenty-four hours a semester, I had fun because I had a passion for what I was pursuing."  After college, her road toward design took a detour, as family responsibilities took priority.  Joyce attended Northwestern University in the evenings, pursuing a Master of Arts degree in Advertising, but decided that it would not fulfill her creative goals.  She spent her business career with AT&T in various positions from diversity workshop facilitator to national account manager.  In 1998, she founded a grassroots organization to support the education of and about artists of color and African descent,  Alliance of African American Artists Foundation, Inc.

Joyce also exhibits her creative talents in another medium: writing.  Joyce -- a former member of Worldwide Church of God and current member of United Church of God -- is a poet and a writer of numerous articles that have been published by Black Suburban Journal newspaper, American Vision magazine, and Newslink, a professional development publication, including an on-going column "From the Stoop" that she is working to self-syndicate. Her writing experiences include interviews of public figures such as Kwesi Mfume, Ed Gordon, Slide Hampton and the Hampton family.  She has completed writing her first non-fiction book,  “Gettin’ to the Good Wood” and her first collection of poetry “ She Also Rises.”  Her writings will be included in the Bestfriends Anthology scheduled for publication in December 2003 and is a contributor to Chicken Soup for the African American Soul , now available in bookstores and L.S. Ayres, Washington Square in Indianapolis.   She has also expressed her creativity on film, directing a cable television show in Indiana back in 1984, creating an infomercial for AT&T products in 1988 and producing a video introducing African American Fine Artists for the  2001 National Black Fine Arts Show in Manhattan.  She is also developing several television concepts, inclusive of script.  She  freelances and has just completed her first ghostwriting project.