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Frances Joy Zemel Long, (born August 16, 1922) is a Canadian painter who lives in West Vancouver, British Columbia.

Life and career
Joy Zemel grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. At the age of seven, her life was interrupted for three years, when she inhaled a piece of eraser and subsequently underwent nine operations on her lungs. In 1930, her parents, built a new home on the beach in West Vancouver, near the mouth of Cypress Creek, and the family moved into it a year later. Joy Zemel graduated from West Vancouver Secondary School, and in 1944 moved to Montreal to attend l’Ecole des Beaux Arts. She had to leave the school after contracting bronchitis, and ended up spending some months the tuberculosis sanatorium at Tranquille, near Kamloops. After recovering her health, she attended the Vancouver School of Art (later renamed the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she studied with Charles H. Scott, Fred Ames, Orville Fisher, Gordon Smith, Lionel Thomas, Jack Shadbolt and Bruno Bobak and experience she describes in The Life and Art of Harry and Jessie Webb Career In 1947, Joy Zemel married photographer Jack V. Long, who is remembered for his work with the National Film Board and the CBC, where he made documentary films such as Skid Row, and later on, the 1964 film about Vancouver artists, In Search of Innocence, where Joy is shown painting in her studio. Her espiratory problems continued, and so Joy Zemel gave birth to her daughter Frances while at the Willow Street Tuberculosis Pavilion at Vancouver General Hospital. Throughout her many hospitalizations she continued to paint and draw, and in the mid 1950’s began to concentrate on the theme of children dancing, skipping and playing games. Through the 1950s and 60s her paintings and collages are shown at the 51st Annual Northwest Artists Juried Show at the Seattle Art Museum, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and a solo show at the Seymour Gallery in Deep Cove. Over the years, Joy Zemel Long exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions at a great number of commercial galleries, including the New Design Gallery, the Bau-Xi Gallery, and Elliott Louis Gallery. In 1972, she designed and constructed a figure for the sculpture garden at the Burnaby Art Gallery where she had a solo show in 1983 entitled Rejoice! Rejoice! which featured the entire series of paintings entitled Women Waiting. In 1974, Zemel Long designed a cover for Women’s Eye book of poems edited by Dorothy Livesay. In 2012, Zemel Long appeared in A Mother’s Love, a short film by Camille Mitchell.