

Marybeth Flower & Joe Bauwens
Ketchum, ID
About the Artist
Joe Bauwens and Marybeth Flower are a married couple who wrote and photographed the award-winning book Piazza: Italy’s Heart & Soul. In 2007, the book won Best Coffee Table Book of the Year in an international competition.
Prior to becoming a photographer, Joe had a successful career as founder and CEO of a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Napa, California. Marybeth spent many years in hospital management. She is the co-founder of the Institute of Health and Healing, and producer of two national teleconferences on health care issues moderated by Ted Koppel.
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Joe Bauwens and Marybeth Flower are a married couple who wrote and photographed the award-winning book Piazza: Italy’s Heart & Soul. In 2007, the book won Best Coffee Table Book of the Year in an international competition.
Prior to becoming a photographer, Joe had a successful career as founder and CEO of a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Napa, California. Marybeth spent many years in hospital management. She is the co-founder of the Institute of Health and Healing, and producer of two national teleconferences on health care issues moderated by Ted Koppel.
The couple considers themselves accidental photographers. They learned photography in order to create their book. In the process of shooting the book they fell in love with photography. Currently they spend time photographing landscapes in the American West.
Marybeth and Joe have studied with some well known photographers including, Jay Maisel, Arthur Meyerson, Eddie Soloway, Jim Stanfield, and Carlan Tapp.
In addition to photography, they love to hiking, biking, skiing, traveling and cooking. They live near Sun Valley, Idaho.
Artist’s Work














Selected Exhibitions
- St. Luke's Wood River Hospital
Ketchum, Idaho, 2012 - Sun Valley Center for the Arts
Ketchum, Idaho, 2012 - Sun Valley Center for the Arts
Ketchum, Idaho, 2011 - Sun Valley Center for the Arts
Ketchum, Idaho, 2010 - St. Luke's Wood River Hospital- Lobby Show
Ketchum, Idaho, 2009
Press and Accolades
- Idaho Mountain Express
November, 2006 - Idaho Statesman
November, 2006 - The Weekly Sun
August, 2012
Education
- Arizona State University, Masters of Social Work
Tempe, Arizona,1972 - Arizona State University, Bachelor of Science- Sociology
Tempe, Arizona,1969 - UCLA, Masters of Business Administration
Los Angeles, California,1963