Courtney Adair Johnson
Courtney Adair Johnson
artandrecycling@gmail.com
Education:
Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Technical University, Smithville, TN, Concentration: Metals, 2001-1999
Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC, Concentration: Metals, 1999-1997
Awards/Grants/Residencies:
AIR, McGruder Social Practice Artist Residency (M-SPAR), Nashville TN Present-2016
Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville Visionaries by Carl Pope, Hiram Van Gordon Gallery 2018-2019
Social Justice Innovation Initiative Grant, M-SPAR, University of Tennessee 2018
Overlands Artworks, ALT Residency, June 2018
Career Development, Hinge Arts Residency, Springboard for the Arts, Fergus Falls, MN 2017
Learning Lab, Metro Arts, Nashville TN 2017-2016
McGruder Creative University (M-CRU), Mellon Foundation, Vanderbilt University 2016
Mapping McGruder, Thrive/Metro Arts Commission, Nashville, TN 2016
Fergus Falls Walking Map Book, Hinge Arts Residency, Springboard for the Arts, Fergus Falls, MN 2015
Master Artist/ Apprentice Program, Tennessee Craft, Nashville TN, 2014
Gold Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, National Museum of Art, Washington DC, Metals, 1999
Selected Solo/Group Exhibitions:
Cowan Collection RE:, Parthenon 2018 (curated by Courtney Adair Johnson and Susan Shockley)
40 for 40, Metro Arts Commission, Metro Courthouse
Build Better Tables, assisted Tattfoo Tan on S.O.S. Free Seed Libraries, Metro Arts Temporary Public Art (curated by Nicole Caruth)
What is Love?, Julia Martin Gallery 2018 (curated by Julia Martin)
Our Food Access, Hiram Van Gordon Gallery, Tennessee State University 2017 (curated by Courtney Adair Johnson)
Edgehilll Muses, The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy 2016 (curated by Rachel Bubis)
Dream a Reality, WAG, Arcade Nashville TN 2016
The Silo Room, Track One, Nashville TN 2015 Curated
Recycled: Paper, Thread and Trash, Harpeth Hall School, Nashville TN 2015 Curated
at MBA (in their Trash), Montgomery Bell Academy, Nashville TN, 2015
Paper, Thread, and Trash, A Collections of Art Books Made from Reuse, Downtown Nashville Public Library, 2014 Curated
Material Potential, University School of Nashville 2014
Selvage, Tennessee State University Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery, Nashville TN 2014 Curated by Jodi Hays and Laura Hutson Hunter
MAAP Group Show, Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville TN 2014
Abstracts and Others, Smart Scraps Make Art Supplies, Nashville TN 2014
Nashville ABC TV Series, 2014
The Dirt of our Landscape The Landscape of our Dirt, Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, Nashville TN 2013
Handmade and Bound, Watkins College of Art, Design and Film, Nashville TN 2013
Projects/Workshops:
Leadership Nashville Arts and Entertainment Day 2018-2017
Pechakucha: Shaping An Artful Community, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville TN 2017
Curlie E. McGruder Information Guide, McGruder Family Resource Center, 2016
Found Narratives, Frist Center for the Visual Arts and Poverty for the Arts, Nashville TN 2015
Nashville Lantern Festival, West End Middle School, Nashville TN 2015
Free Plastic, A Community Weaving, Oz Family Day, Nashville, TN 2014
Our Meander House Book, Downtown Nashville Public Library, 2014
The Trash Menagerie, Nashville Mini Maker Faire, 2013
Color Your Library, Nashville Public Library Foundation, 2013
World Refugee Day, Oasis Center and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville TN 2013
String City, Wishing Chair Production, Nashville TN 2013
Earth Day Trash Painting, Frist Center for the Visual Arts and Turnip Green Creative Reuse, Nashville TN 2012
Mise en Scene and Field Journals with Warner Elementary and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, Nashville TN 2012
Mechanical Animals: The Mooglie Foop, Nashville’s Downtown Puppet Festival, 2011
Consuming Catastrophe: The Comedy of the Heart; A Play in Ate Parts, Downtown Presbyterian Church, Nashville TN 2010
Press:
Burnaway, Nashville Artists Aim for Place-keeping More Than Placemaking by Erica Ciccarone
Nashville arts Magazine, ARTSMART: M-SPAR: ART ENGAGING COMMUNITY by DeeGee Lester
Vanderbilt News, Edgehill Muses by Ann Marie Deer Owens
Nashville Arts Magazine Blog, The Happening at Wilburn Street Tavern by Courtney Adair Johnson
Fergus Falls Journal, Mapping it Out by Miranda Hubert
Imagine Fergus Falls Blog, Reinventing the discarded by Courtney Adair Johnson
Number Inc., The Silo Room by Erica Ciccarone
Best of Nashville Scene 2015, Best Themed Art Show by Joe Nolan
Burnaway, Trash Tales at the Nashville Public Library by Erica Ciccarone
Nashville Arts Magazine, January 2015, Organized Chaos by Erica Ciccarone
Nashville Visual Artist Blog, Tina Gionis
Country Life, Nashville Scene, Studio Visit: Courtney Adair Johnson, Laura Hutson
NYCnash, Selvage at TSU with Photo Gallery, Erica Ciccarone
Critics' Picks, Nashville Scene, Material Potential, Laura Hutson