Amy Johnson
b. 1976
Charlotte, NC
Amy Johnson received a Bachelor of Science in Sociology from Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina. Her interest in further combining visual expression with her curiosities and questions regarding social culture and interactions motivated her to pursue an active art practice.
Johnson received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder with concentrations in both photography and ceramics. She then lived and worked in Missoula, Montana and attended the University of Montana as a post baccalaureate. In 2007 she received her M.F.A. from the University of Washington ceramics program. She has been a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, MT, Centrum in Port Townsend, WA and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT.
Johnson continues to be interested in and explores in her work the tension between the myths and realities embedded in her Southern heritage and the cultural expectations for women. She has most recently become interested in the processes of site-responsive installation as well as creating two-dimensional imagery on paper.
Her work is in the collections of the University of Montana Museum of Art and Culture and the Archie Bray Foundation.
She is currently living and working in Seattle, WA.