Currently Professor Emeritus teaching part-time at MassArt in Fine Arts 3D, Jewelry & Metals at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA. Joe has been teaching jewelry, metalsmithing, computer techniques for object-makers and other classes at since 1985.

Notable symposia and conference events include Questions of Context, Legacies, The Ring, ContacT,Connections and Parallax.

Lectures and workshops have been at The Royal College of Art in London, Silpakorn University in Bangkok Thailand, Haystack, Penland, Arrowmont, Seattle Metals Guild and other places.

Exhibitions of work include Schmuck 2001, Munich Germany, Signals: Late 20th Century American Jewelry, Cranbrook Museum of Art.

Work is in the public collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, The Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine WI and the Daphne Farago Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA.

Widely published in catalogs, books and magazine articles.