Born in 1971 in Boston, MA. Joslin received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. Since then, she has exhibited extensively throughout the United States. She constructs intricate mixed-media creatures from a strange array of artifacts: brass, bone, beads, fur, antique hardware, and other scavenged treasures. Glass eyes are meticulously set with glove leather from antique opera gloves. Ears are crafted from leather and resin, and trimmed with fur. Ornate brass hardware fittings form the curve of a spine, ribs are made from beads mounted on music wire. The parts are integrated with the finely wrought craft of an artisan watchmaker. Miniature machine bolts, springs and couplers comprise anatomical structures, seamlessly integrating the inorganic with the organic. The creatures range in height from 1 inch to nearly 6 feet tall. Joslin has been intrigued by the natural sciences since childhood, when she first began a collecting a vast array of bones, shells, seedpods, and the like. In 1992, she began building the first beasts of her menagerie, using many of the natural objects that she’d collected as a child.