Carla Rae Johnson

SELECTED AWARDS

2005	New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Sculpture Westchester Arts Council, Design Commission for Cultural Tourism Center, White Plains, NY
2002	Director’s Choice Award - Westchester Biennial 2002, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
1995	Studios Midwest Artist in Residency, June-August, Galesburg, IL
1990	Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship
1983	Islip Art Museum 1st Award/Sculpture, Annual Juried Competition, Helen A. Harrison, Juror, East Islip, NY
1979	National Sculpture 1979, 2nd Award, Robert Pincus-Witten, Juror, Huntsville, AL
1979	Mississippi Museum of Art, Merit Award, Sculpture Competition, Jackson, MS

PUBLICATIONS

2003	College Art Association, CAA National Conference 2003 Session Co-chair, Search/ Research: Artists in the Archives, NYC Double Vision: Contemporary Artists Look at the Poetry of Emily Dickinson, Maryanne Garbowsky, Putnam Hill Press, Chester, Vermont, 2002
2000	A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, 2nd Edition, Richard Kostelantz
1992-00	Who’s Who in American Art
1997	Language as Object: Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Art, Susan Danly, Editor, University of Massachusetts Press
1989	Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women Judy Collischan Van Wagner, Hudson Hills Books, NYC

SELECTED NOTICES & REVIEWS

New York Times, Westchester, Feature, Susan Hodara 8/26/07
New York Times, Westchester, Feature, Roberta Hershenson 8/28/05
New York Times, Arts & Leisure, Holland Cotter 3/13/05
New York Times, 9/12/04
Journal News. 9/17/04
New York Times, 6/13/04
North County News, 6/2-8/04
Westchester County Times, July 2004
New York Times, 9/12/04
Journal News, 9/17/04
Journal News, 9/18/04
Journal News, 6/2/02
Journal News, 4/7/02
Times Herald-Record, 11/2/01                               Westchester Weekly, 10/26/00
Journal News, 6/1/01
New York Post, 4/13/90
Westchester Weekly, 4/6/98
Gannett Westchester, 4/1/90
Peekskill Herald, 5/8/97
City Sun, 17-23/90
Gannett Westchester, 3/17/95                                Newport This Weekend, 9/11/86
Peekskill Herald, Review, 1/25/95
New York Times, 7/28/85
New York Times, Review, 2/16/92
Newsday, 8/6/85
New Haven Register, Review, 10/20/91
New York Times, 1/19/81
Village Voice, “Choices” (Kim Levin) 4/24/90                      Newsday, 1/9/81
Women Artists News, Review, fall ’90
Ceramics Monthly, Jan. ‘81

COLLECTIONS: PUBLIC

Triplex Gallery, B.M.C.C., CUNY, Permanent Collection
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, Permanent Collection

SELECTED COLLECTIONS: PRIVATE

James and Gail Addiss, NYC; Michael and Susan Dorsey, Greenville, NC;
Jan and Mary Douglas, NYC; Marcy B. Freedman, Croton-on-Hudson, NY;
James B. and Susan Foster, Fort Collins, CO; Eugenia C. Foxworth, Riverdale, NY;
Jonathan and Marina Haight, Hudson, NY; Richard Kostelanetz, NYC;
S. Katherine Lochridge, Cornwall, NY; Bill Maxwell, Dana DeVito, Peekskill, NY
Nick Mottern, Peekskill, NY; Judith Ostrowitz, NYC; Jonathan and Lucy Penner, Tucson, AZ;
Joe and Harriet Pfeifer, Yonkers, NY; Terry Raskyn, Putnam Valley, NY;
Marvin Schwam, NYC; Claudia Shwide and Fred Slavin, NYC;
Eileen and Jorge Yajure, Peekskill, NY; Sue and Jerry Wexler, Chicago, IL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008	The Chappaqua Library Gallery, The Reciprocity of Grace and Gravity: Notes to Self, Chappaqua, NY Fine Arts Gallery, Westchester Community College, Flag Series, (8'x12' drawings in charcoal), Valhalla, NY
2006	Harold L. Drimmer Library and Learning Resource Center, Return of the Last Library, Installation, On Extended loan to Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY
2005	Harold L. Drimmer Library and Learning Resource Center, Return of the Last Library, Installation, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY The Peekskill Project, “Spirits of the Underground Railroad,” Peekskill, NY
2004	The Peekskill Project, “Flood” (a site-specific installation) Pugsley Park, Peekskill, NY Maxwell Fine Arts, “Transforming Identity,” Peekskill, NY Ford Piano, Bessie Smith Meets Beethoven, (Installation), Peekskill, NY
2002	The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts – Ceres Project Room, Funded Exhibition, NYC
1997	Ceres Gallery, The Last Chance Salon: Games for the Millennium, NYC Westchester Gallery, Selections from The Last Chance Salon, White Plains, NY
1995	Windows on Greene Street, Errors Selavy, Installation, SOHO, NYC
1994	SOHO 20 Gallery, Spirit and Substance: Sculptural Lecterns & the Spoken Word, NYC
1991	Artspace, Gray Matters: The Last Library, New Haven, CT Kingsborough Art Gallery, CUNY, Gray Matters: The Last Library, Brooklyn, NY Westchester Gallery, Selections from Gray Matters: The Last Library, White Plains, NY
1990	SOHO 20 Gallery, Gray Matters: The Last Library, NYC
1989	Franklin and Marshall College Art Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Lancaster, PA
1987	SOHO 20 Gallery, Studio Equipment Sale: Sculpture Based on Artists’ Tools, NYC
1985	SOHO 20 Gallery, Sculpture and Drawings, NYC
1979	Meridian Museum of Art, Art and Life & How I Felt About the Ladder, Meridian, MS

PERFORMANCES

1998	Marymount College, Irony, (for “World Peace Through Performance”) Tarrytown, NY
1995	One Station Plaza, Unafraid of Virginia Woolf and Lectern for Sojourner Truth, Peekskill, NY Marymount College, Butler Rotunda, Lecterns for Sojourner Truth and Virginia Woolf, Performance for Women’s Day 1995, Tarrytown, NY
1994	National Conference of the Women’s Caucus for Art, ”Virginia Woolf & Harriet Tubman with a Room and a Railroad for Our Own Times, NYC
1993	Bywood Gallery, Benefit Performance of Lectern for Harriet Tubman, Peekskill, NY

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008	Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art: The Peekskill Project 2008, at Bruised Apple Books, The Cathouse Associates: "This is Not a Book" (in collaboration with Dana DeVito and Marcy B. Freedman) Peekskill, NY Ceres Gallery: Ceres Group Show 2008, Chelsea, NYC The Hat Factory: Collaborative Concepts at The Hat Factory , Peekskill, NY The Westchester Art Workshop/Peekskill Open Studios 2008, Peekskill, NY
2007	Fine Arts Gallery, Westchester Community College,, Common Ground: Proposals for Public Art, Valhalla, NY
2006	Butler Gallery Marymount College of Fordham University, “Past but Present: Fifty Years of Faculty Art” Tarrytown, NY Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art: The Peekskill Project 2006 – Collaborative Works on Paper, An Exhibition at “The Cathouse” (adjacent to Maxwell Fine Arts) by Dana DeVito, Marcy B. Freedman, and Carla Rae Johnson, Peekskill, NY
2005	University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Contemporary Women Artists: New York, Curated by Judy Collischan, Terre Haute, IN WCC Fine Arts Gallery, Transitions: WCC Faculty Exhibition, Valhalla, NY State University Plaza Gallery Westchester Community College Faculty Art Exhibition, Albany, NY Mainline Art Center, Rearranged/Redefined: Domestic Objects Reconsidered, Group Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA (Curated By Mary Salvante)
2004	HEREArt, EA50 Curated by Sherry Mayo, SoHo, NYC Ceres Gallery, Constellation, Curated Group Show, Chelsea, NYC The Arts Exchange, Westchester Arts Council, Before & After: Imagining Public Art in Westcheste, White Plains, NY Downtown Peekskill Artist District, Open Studios 2004, Peekskill, NY Downtown Peekskill Artist District, Open Studios Artists at Work, Peekskill, NY
2003	WCC Art Department Faculty Showcases, Exhibition Maxwell Fine Arts, Holiday Salon Show 2003-2004, Peekskill, NY Downtown Peekskill Artist District, Open Studios 2003, Peekskill, NY Ceres Gallery, The Square Show, Chelsea, NYC
2002	Westchester Arts Council/The Arts Exchange “Tributaries: Six Sculptors Respond to the Hudson River”, White Plains, NY Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, Westchester Biennial 2002, New Rochelle, NY Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement, “The Flag Project,” NYC Sonoma State University Art Gallery, “Across the Generations: An Homage to Virginia Woolf and the Art of Bloomsbury,” Twelfth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Rohnert Park, CA Atrium Art Gallery, Ball State University, “Alumni Exhibition,” Curated by Richard R. Alasko, Muncie, IN 2nd Underground Railroad Conference, “Follow: The River and the Drinkin’ Gourd” (exhibition at conference), Peekskill, NY Paramount Center for the Arts-Upper Gallery, “Peekskill Preview: Open Studios 2002,” Peekskill, NY Westchester Arts Workshop, “Open Studios 2002,” Peekskill, NY Ford Piano, window exhibition of “Follow: The River and the Drinkin’ Gourd”, Peekskill, NY Ceres Gallery, Halleluiah Show, NYC One Station Plaza, No More War: Artists Respond to the Threat of War, Peekskill, NY Main Street Gallery, Holiday Show, Dobbs Ferry, NY
2001	Maxwell Fine Arts, Holiday Salon, Peekskill, NY Ceres Gallery, The Square Show, NYC Paramount Center for the Arts: The Upper Gallery, Start Here, Peekskill, NY One Station Plaza, 2nd Annual Women’s Group Show, Peekskill, NY Marymount College, Butler Gallery, Faculty Exhibition, Tarrytown, NY Westchester Arts Workshop, Exhibition for Open Studios 2001, Peekskill, NY Westchester Arts Council, Locations: Real and Imagined, Invitational for Open Studios 2001, curated by Rosemary Erpf, White Plains, NY
2000	Westchester Arts Council, Open Studios Invitational Exhibition, White Plains, NY Marymount College, Gloria Gaines Memorial Library, Lectern for Emily Dickinson, Tarrytown, NY
1999	One Station Plaza, (Three exhibitions) Letting Off Steam: Impressions/Indian Point; Women Artists of the Hudson Valley; and Emily Dickinson Meets Marcel Duchamp: Drawings and Sculpture from “The Séance Series,” Peekskill, NY Peekskill Arts Council, Open Studios, Peekskill, NY
1998	The Loveland Museum, World Peace Through Art, (Two artists each from: U.S., Korea, and Japan), Loveland, CO Polis Gallery, (Three exhibitions) Political Cartoons, Peekskill’s History: Preservation or Profit?, and Artists Against the Death Penalty, Peekskill, NY The Gallery on the Hudson, The Eloquent Object, Carol Edelson, Curator, Irvington, NY
1997	A.I.R. Gallery, Generations, Invitational Exhibition, NYC Mead Museum of Art, Language as Object: Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Art, Susan Danly Curator, Amherst, MA Ceres Gallery, Affirmative Actions, NYC
1995	Snug Harbor Cultural Center, In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the ‘90s Part 1 “Issues of Gender,” Charlotte Streifer-Rubenstein, Curator, Staten Island, NY Galesburg Civic Art Center, Studios Midwest Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Galesburg, IL SUNY Purchase Art Gallery, The Death Penalty: Loss of Conscience, Purchase, NY Ceres Gallery, Deviants, Perverts, Aliens, and Feminazis: A Response to the Radical Right, NYC Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, Our Town, Invitational Exhibition, Eugenia Foxworth, Curator, NYC
1994	SOHO 20 Gallery, The Push-Pin Show and Matrixes, NYC Paramount Center for the Arts, Paramount East Gallery, Sculptural Beginnings, Peekskill, NY
1993	Tweed Gallery, Women’s Art/Lives/Issues, Sponsor: NYC Commission on the Status of Women SOHO 20 Gallery, Vivian E. Browne Memorial Exhibition, NYC Paramount Center for the Arts, Universal Symbols, Invitational, Peekskill, NY
1991	Queens Museum of Art at Paine Webber Art Gallery, Ten From Queens, NYC Heckscher Museum of Art, More Books as Art, Anna C. Knoll, Curator, Huntington, NY Nynex Corporation, Celebrating Women’s History Month, White Plains, NY Triplex Gallery, BMCC, Selections from the Permanent Collection, NYC SOHO 20 Gallery, The Gold Show, NYC
1990	Art Link Contemporary Artspace, Invitational Exhibition, Ft. Wayne, IN SOHO 20 Gallery, Blacklisted/Whitewashed/Redhanded and 20/20, NYC Triplex Gallery BMCC, Noah’s Ark: 20th Century, NYC
1989	Hillwood Art Gallery, Lines of Vision, Judy Collischan Van Wagner, Curator, Greenvale, NY Blum-Hellman Gallery, Lines of Vision, NYC National Museum of Women in the Arts, Lines of Vision, Washington, DC Yale University Art Gallery, Lines of Vision, New Haven, CT
1987	Discovery Metro, Group Show, Long Island City, NY Lever House, Comic Art Show, Karen Bauman, Curator, NYC SOHO 20 Gallery, Red, Group Exhibition, NYC
1986	Minor Injury, Multiple Choice, Noah Jemison, Curator, Brooklyn, NY Hera Gallery, Obsessions, Brenda Correia, Curator, Wakefield, RI
1986	SOHO 20 Gallery, Black & White, Group Exhibition, NYC Nippon Club Gallery, Salute to America’s Torch of Freedom, Toru Mano, Curator, NYC
1985	Hillwood Art Gallery, Unaffiliated Artists III, Judy Collischan Van Wagner Curator, Greenvale, NY SOHO 20 Gallery, Ten from SOHO 20, NYC
1984	Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Artist’s Call, Benefit Exhibition, NYC Lehigh University Art Gallery, WCA ’84: National Juried Exhibition, Bethlehem, PA
1983	Gallery 345, 4 by 27: Women Collaborate, NY Feminist Art Institute (Sponsor), NEA Funded, NYC Islip Art Museum, Long Island Artists, Part 1, East Islip, NY Women’s Interart Center, Consumer Beware, Kathleen Goncharov, Curator, NYC
1982	Parson’s School of Design, Dangerous Works: Artists for Nuclear Disarmament, NYC
1981	Grey Art Gallery of NYU, Heresies Benefit Exhibition, NYC
1981	Grey Art Gallery of NYU, Heresies Benefit Exhibition, NYC
1981	Grey Art Gallery of NYU, Heresies Benefit Exhibition, NYC The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn ’81, Brooklyn, NY Heckscher Museum of Art, Kindred Spirits: Joseph Cornell & Others, Katherine Lochridge, Curator, Huntington, NY
1980	Scripps College, 36th Annual Invitational, Claremont, CA
1979	Birmingham Art Association, 71st Annual Juried Exhibition, Dennis Oppenheim, Juror, Birmingham, AL Mississippi Museum of Art, Southern Realism, Jackson, MS National Sculpture 1979, Robert Pincus-Witten, Juror, Huntsville, AL
1978	National Sculpture 1978, Jack Burnham, Juror, Columbia, SC

EDUCATION

1975 MFA, The University of Iowa, Iowa City IA

1974 MA, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

1969 BS, Art Education, Ball State University, Muncie, IN

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Current Assistant Professor of Art, SUNY Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY

1997-2003 Associate Professor of Art, Marymount College (of Fordham University 7/1/02)

1993-1997 Assistant Professor of Art, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY

1986-1993 Adjunct Lecturer, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY

1985-1993 Adjunct Lecturer, Westchester Art Workshop, Westchester Community College, White Plains, NY

1977-1980 Instructor of Art, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS

1975-1976 Lecturer, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY

ELATED EXPERIENCE

2006	Guest Lecturer – “The Creative Edge: Promoting Generative Creativity in the 21st Century” The Collegium, Westchester Community College Coordinator/Advisor – Westchester Community College 60th Anniversary Mural – WCC Art Club
2005	Committee Member – Committee on Diversity Practices, College Art Association Artist’s Gallery Talk - Westchester Community College Fine Arts Gallery Faculty Exhibition, Workshop Presenter: Honoring our Creative An-sisters, Marymount College of Fordham University, Women’s Day, Tarrytown, NY Division of Arts and Humanities Symposium, Artist in the Archives
2003-2007	Committee Member – Westchester Community College Visual Arts Advisory Committee, Fine Arts Gallery Committee, and Visual Arts Program Curriculum Committee Faculty Advisor – Westchester Community College Art Club (Student club)
2002-2004	Member - Planning Team Free at Last (Local, grassroots anti-racism organization)Peekskill, NY
2001-2003	Art Department Chair/Program Facilitator, Marymount College of Fordham University Fine Arts Unit Chair, Marymount College of Fordham University Educational Policy Committee, Faculty Member, Marymount College of Fordham University Women’s Study Committee, Faculty Member, Marymount College of Fordham University
2002-2004	Member - Planning Team Free at Last (Local, grassroots anti-racism organization)Peekskill, NY
2002	Workshop Presenter, Open Space, St. George’s Episcopal Church, Newburgh, NY
2000-2001	One Year Sabbatical, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY Faculty Member, Search Committee for Dean of Students
1998-2000	Member at Large: AAUP Executive Council, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY
1998-99	First Semester Seminar Faculty Taskforce, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY
1998	Faculty Member, Presidential Search Committee, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY
	Coordinator, *Polis Gallery, Peekskill, NY Organizer*, “Diversity Week,” Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY
1997	Vice President, *Ceres Gallery, NYC Presenter, Diversity by Design,* F.A.T.E., CAA Annual Conference, NYC Organizer, Mother May I: Women Artist Series, One Station Plaza, Peekskill, NY Presenter, Art as a High-Stakes Gamble, Slide Lecture, Westchester Gallery, White Plains, NY
1996-1998	College Coordinator for Multicultural Theme, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY
1996	Freshman Intensive Seminar Faculty Taskforce, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY Presenter, Clay as Idea, Hudson River Potters, Port Chester, NY
1995	Chair: Women’s Day, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY Presenter, Diversity by Design, AAC&U Conference on Diversity, Philadelphia, PA Presenter, Women in Art Series, One Station Plaza, Peekskill, NY Lecturer, Humanities Art Lecture, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY
1994-2000	Academic Advisor, Lower Division, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY
1983	Guest Lecturer, The Genius Within: Seminar on the Creative Process, Westchester Art Workshop, White Plains, NY Panelist, Sources of Imagery, Silvermine Artists’ Guild, Stamford, CT
1991	Panelist, Women Who Own Galleries, Artists Talk on Art, NYC Symposium Panelist, Say Goodbye to the Written Word, Artspace, New Haven, CT
1990-1991	Chair: Board of Directors, SOHO 20 Artists, Inc., NYC
1989-1990	Vice-Chair: Board of Directors, SOHO 20 Artists, Inc., NYC Chair: Board of Directors, SOHO 20 Artists, Inc., NYC President, SOHO 20 Artists, Inc., NYC
1988	Guest Speaker, Chappaqua Artists’ Guild, Chappaqua, NY
1985	Panel Moderator: Truth to Ethereals, SOHO 20, Gallery, NYC Visiting Artist, Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1982	Artist-in-Residence, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
1981	Visiting Artist, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS