 She loved the environment of the school even though she didn't have much exposure to art.When her first year didn't go too well, she considered dropping out but ended up staying after meeting her future husband, Bill Brown, who encouraged her to stay and take the landscape class by Bischoff, and also introduced her to art history when he give her a number of books where she was first encountered works of artists such as Goya, Velàzquez, Rembrandt, and the Impressionists.Some of Joan Brown's important works are "Woman and Dog in Room with Chinese Rug (1975), Noel at the Table with a Large Bowl of Fruit (1963)," etc.