[1] During the early 1930s she lived among the Ouled Naïl people in eastern Algeria, where she met Ben Aissa Mabrouk.

[2] She was married to Dominick J. Guccione in 1943, a noted Woodstock taxidermist and that marriage ended with his death in 1959.

[7][8][9] After his death, she took over his taxidermy business, and moved to New York City where she did a lot of taxidermy-based interior decor such as animal skin rugs.

[9] Guccione had held solo art exhibitions of her paintings in New York City, Woodstock, Washington D.C., Paris, Algeria and in India.

[1][10] In 2019, her work was in a postmortem exhibition, Juanita Guccione: Otherwhere at the Napa Valley Museum in Yountville.