In 1995, Jo-Ann Lowney was awarded the Visual Art Fellowship in two-dimensional media by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and in 1996, an Artists' Residency Grant by the Arizona Commission on the Arts for the mural project, "A History of Superstition Mountain." Lowney paints, sculpts and maintains the gardens of the historic artists' community, East Side Art, where she and her husband and seven other artists work and live.

Her work is in the collection of the Scottsdale Museum for Contemporary Art, Nordstrom of Scottsdale, Universal Picture Studios and private and corporate collections in the U.S., Portugal, Germany, Israel and Canada.