Visiting Artist Lecture: Io Palmer. Io Palmer is quite and interesting woman. She was born and raised on a small island outside of Greece. The island had virtually no motors, with the exception of the trash motorcycle, which scooted around two days a week to pick up people's garbage. I cannot imagine how peaceful and wonderful this style of life would be. Both of Io's parents were artists. Her mother worked in several various mediums including working in batik and her father worked in sculpture. Io discussed the amount of patience that it required of her father to create sculptures from large slabs of marble. Io took to the role models that her parents were and started making art as well.