Ann Johnson

Ann Johnson wants to have face-to-face conversation. This installation resembles an outdoor park. Visitors are invited to sit and discuss highly charged words in her tree sculptures such as Ferguson and immigration. Using experimental processes that included intaglio on sycamore leaves, text prints, transparencies and found objects, Johnson addresses systemic violence that continues to threaten all African Americans.

May 14, 2–4pm West Austin Studio Tour #151 Select Event

Join us for a conversation with Ann Johnson as she discusses her interactive art installation that emphasizes and demands communication between two individuals.

The Gallery will be open Saturday and Sunday on May 14, 15, 21, and 22 from 11am-6pm for the WEST tour. Read more about the WEST tour here.

Ann ‘Sole Sister’ Johnson is an artist born in London, England and raised in Cheyenne, WY. Johnson currently teaches at Prairie View A&M University. Primarily a mixed media artist, Johnson’s passion for exploring issues particularly in the Black community has led her to create a series of works that are evocative and engaging. The Hoop Dreamin Collection is a series of decorative basketball goals that explore the social issue of a Hoop Dream. It Is The Not Knowing That Burns My Soul is an investigation of exploratory mixed media works that examine the “Black Indian”. The latter was included in an exhibition and catalog for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian titled: Indivisible. She has been invited to teach at Tougaloo Art Colony in Jackson, MS in 2009, 2011 and 2013. In 2010 she received the Teaching Excellence Award at Prairie View A&M University, and was awarded art teacher of the year in the School of Architecture. In 2011 she received the distinguished Presidents Faculty Of The Year award.