We will love you and miss you always.May our Heavenly Father continually grant Joan's family and friends daily grace, mercy and peaceful memories of her and help you recount her wonderful story to share with others along your journeys.I am sorry for your loss.
The stance surprised some people, who saw her as a traditionalist, perhaps because she had stayed home to raise a family and do volunteer work while her husband worked and traveled. Visiting an artist in Kyoto, a Mondale aide mentioned that he worked at the United States Embassy.“ ‘Oh, do you know Joan Mondale?’ the artist said, his eyes lighting up,” the aide told The Star Tribune in Minneapolis in 1996. When the couple moved to Washington in 1964 after Mr. Mondale was appointed to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Ms. Mondale gave guided tours at the National Gallery of Art. “Maybe I wasn’t outrageous enough,” she told The Christian Science Monitor in the spring of 1984.

“We feel a sense of declining standards.”Ms.

The cause was not specified. !The Board of Directors of the Norwegian-American Genealogical Center, Madison, Wisconsin, extend sincere condolences to the entire Mondale family, and we express thanks for Mrs. Mondale's life and service to our country.So sorry sorry for your loss. She wrote “Politics in Art,” a book for children and young adults, in 1972. Joan Mondale, whose promotion and advocacy of painting, sculpture and other fine arts earned her the nickname Joan of Art in Washington during the vice presidency of her husband, Her family announced the death in a statement released by Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis, where the Mondales have long been members.

She used the vice president’s official residence, on the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory, to showcase American art.

The Mondales made news with a social experiment in 1969, setting out to live for a week on the food budget of welfare recipients. The Mondales' eldest son Ted is an entrepreneur and the CEO of Nazca Solutions, a technology fulfillment venture. She worked with the Department of Transportation to turn railroad stations into art galleries, talked the National Park Service into selling crafts at its gift shops and raised money for Democratic candidates by auctioning donated art. Her interest in art had been encouraged by an uncle, Philip Rhys Adams, who was director of the Cincinnati Art Museum. A daughter, Eleanor Mondale Poling, died of brain cancer in 2011.Joan Mondale was often described by friends, colleagues and journalists with homey adjectives like friendly, cheerful, down-to-earth, gentle, reliable and unpretentious, but it is doubtful that anyone called her naïve. Joan Mondale, whose promotion and advocacy of painting, sculpture and other fine arts earned her the nickname Joan of Art in Washington during the vice presidency of her husband, Walter F. Mondale… PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Joan Mondale, who burnished a reputation as "Joan of Art" for her passionate advocacy for the arts while her husband was vice president and a U.S. ambassador, died Monday.



Joan Mondale's memorial service was held Saturday, February 8, 2014 at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis.

Not everyone in the art world approved of her activism. Mondale continued her work after her husband retired from politics in 1996. “You begin to understand the desperation of people who must live like this,” Ms. Mondale told the syndicated columnist Carl Rowan. A Frank Stella print hung over a fireplace in one of the Mondales’ homes. She was 83.In loving memory of a wonderful person. She was an artist and author and served on the boards of several organizations.

Joan Mondale, seen attending the funeral mass for former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro in 2011, was given a grand platform to promote the arts when her husband, left, was in office. “Wealthy men without good taste have to be handled carefully.”Joan Mondale, Who Merged Politics With Art, Dies at 83Walter F. Mondale and his wife, Joan, after his nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in 1984.

Joan Mondale (née Adams; August 8, 1930 – February 3, 2014) was second lady of the United States from 1977 until 1981 as the wife of Walter Mondale, the 42nd vice president of the United States.
The family said on Sunday that she had gone into hospice care. On February 3, 2014, she died at a hospice in Minneapolis surrounded by members of their family. “Every time Joan Mondale opens her mouth to talk about the crafts, we get the shivers,” one critic wrote in Artnews magazine in 1978. “Maybe I should have been more sensational.” When Bill Clinton appointed Mr. Mondale the United States ambassador to Japan in 1993, Ms. Mondale arranged for the loan of art from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles for the ambassador’s residence in Tokyo and promoted public art there.