Joanne Maaloe Burdick was born and raised in New York.  She received her BA from Bard College and was studying at the Art Students League of New York when she met her husband Charles. They settled in Wellfleet in 1966.

Joanne pursued her art career by printmaking, exhibiting with the Cape Cod Printmakers. Now she works in watercolor, painting still life and landscapes, plein-air, of the Outer Cape.