Young Artists Project: Amy Johnson

Amy Johnson pursued her interest in visual art at the University of Colorado at Boulder and received her BFA with concentrations in photography and ceramics. She received her MFA from the University of Washington with a body of work focused on female socialization and identity. Johnson has been a resident at the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts in Helena, MT and is in the collections of the University of Montana Museum of Art and Culture and the Archie Bray Foundation. Johnson was the recipient of the Elmer Craig Award from  The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts in 2006.

"Amy Johnson makes her own paper, pulps it, dyes it and casts it. I like her "Mirror Mirror," a Japanese-style greeting card come to life and writ large across a wall: black trunks and black/red blooms, some piled up on the floor with fractured blackbirds riding upward diagonals. Johnson's strength is her ability to evoke a greeting card version of a fairy tale, blow it up across a wall and without losing the essential artifice, suggest a landscape in which it might be possible to take a stroll." --Regina Hackett, Seattle Post Intelligencer