Background and Training
Bachelor of Arts Degree (Pomono University)
Instructor-creator of an inner city art program for youth at All Saints Community Center in Seattle. Prior to retirement, Johnny was a casework manager in the area of foster care and delinquency services for the State of Michigan.
Johnny is a self-taught impressionist realist painter depicting a style that is partly derived from the study of classical 19th and 20th century American and European artists.
Learned birch bark and willow root basketry with grandmother, at age 10
Studied with noted basket makers: Sarah Moses, Susie Pike and Evelyn Jones
Exhibitions and Festivals
Heritage Gallery, One – person show, Seattle, WA, 2000
Native Cultural Center Annual Basketry Exhibition, Anchorage, AK 1998
Northwest Indian Festival, Portland, OR, 1998
Seattle Gallery of Fine Crafts, Two – person exhibition, Seattle, WA 1997
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Earth, Fire and Fiber Exhibition, Anchorage, AK 1995
Tanana Valley State Fair, Fairbanks, AK, 1994
Alaska Federation of Natives, Anchorage, AK 1991
Festival of Native Arts, Fairbanks, AK 1989
Huslia Village Corporation, Huslia, AK 1986
Awards, Honors and Commissions
Selected to demonstrate at Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1999
Best of Show Award, Tanana Valley State Fair, 1994
Invited to demonstrate basketry at Alaska Governor’s Arts Conference, 1994
Commission for birch bark basket for permanent collection aboard the Alaska State Ferry, North Wind, 1990
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