His first solo museum exhibition was at the Butler Institute of American Art, in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1975. The following year, during a three-month stay in Tanzania, Holston painted and taught workshops at the University of Dar es Salaam."Artist Joseph Holston - Newspaper clippings about Joseph Holston's time in Tanzania" (http://www.holstonart.com/reference/newspaper-clippings-about-joseph-holston-s-time-in-tanzania).
