Joan Washburn Cole is a lithographer whose prints have been exhibited throughout the Northeast. She holds a Bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and has studied printmaking at the University of Massachusetts, University of Connecticut, University of New Mexico, and at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography, Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was an Associate Printmaker at Discover Graphics, The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, Virginia until 1993 when she established Geaster Printmaking Studio in Mansfield Center, Connecticut.